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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. How is Ivan Ivanovich described by the painter who exhibits his portrait?

2. Where does Major Kovalyov confront his lost nose?

3. Where is the stationmaster's daughter living with Captain Minsky?

4. What does Ivan Ivanovich end his thinking with while sitting on the tombstone?

5. In "The Clothesmender," what is the tailor's real last name?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Praskovya Osipovna react when Ivan Yakovlevich finds a nose in his loaf of bread?

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

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

5. How does Major Kovalyov try to obscure his missing nose when he goes into the coffee house and when he leaves?

6. How does Dunya's father react to the hussar's asking if he can take her to church?

7. What has Platon Nikolayevich apparently said about the stench in the graveyard that is perceived by the dead?

8. How does Major Kovalyov decide to approach his nose at the Kazan Cathedral and how does the Nose react?

9. Describe the character of the wife of Laputin, the benefactor in "The Clothesmender".

10. What happens when the stationmaster arrives in Petersburg?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In "The Death of Dolgushov", what has happened in battle to cause Korochayev's situation? What does Afonka think will happen to him? Why?

Essay Topic 2

In "The Clothesmender", what is the reason that the tailor Laputin has a French sign calling him Lepoutant? What happens, ironically, to his benefactor of the same name at the end of the story? Why is this ironic?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the story of the prodigal son on the stationmaster's wall in "The Stationmaster", by Pushkin. How does this allegory relate to the stationmaster's daughter in the main story?

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