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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the real last name of the occupant of Room One in "The Clothesmender"?

2. What is painted into his portrait that vexes Ivan Ivanovich?

3. Where does Lukerya lead the singing when she is young?

4. Whom does the stationmaster ask about his daughter's whereabouts as this person is snuffing out candles?

5. What is the name of a type of Russian carriage?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the three hermits walk on water and chase the ship?

2. How does Dunya react to meeting the narrator in "The Stationmaster"?

3. In "The Clothesmender", what does the priest say to the narrator are the advantages of living with the tailor?

4. How does Pyotr Petrovich interpret Lukerya's face when he encounters her in the bee hut?

5. After discouragement from the newspaper and the district police inspector, how does Major Kovalyov feel when he gets home?

6. What happens when the stationmaster arrives in Petersburg?

7. In "The Stationmaster", what is the narrator's main concern when he arrives at station X?

8. What effect does talking have on Lukerya when she is telling Pyotr Petrovich about her life?

9. How does the fisherman end up on the island with the three hermits?

10. When does Lukerya die and what does she say about the sounds she hears?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In "A Living Relic", how does Lukerya's malady manifest itself? What draws her outside in the middle of the night? What happens as a result? Describe the progression of her illness discussing how she ends up in the bee hut.

Essay Topic 2

How does the situation of Major Kovalyov's missing nose in Gogol's "The Nose" resolve itself? Who is the blamed for the situation? Where is this person caught? Does the Nose eventually appear back onto Major Kovalyov's? If so, how?

Essay Topic 3

How does Tolstoy characterize each of the three hermits in "The Three Hermits"? How do these descriptions obscure the true nature of the power that the hermits have? How is this ironic in light of the Bishop's visit to the island?

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