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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. Where does the hussar pretend he is taking the stationmaster's daughter when he abducts her?

2. What do editors say that Ivan Ivanovich's stories lack when he brings them to their offices?

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

4. What is the smell Pyotr Petrovich encounters as he enters the bee hut?

5. The clerk at the newspaper office says that the loss of Major Kovalyov's nose is (a) _____ business.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Captain try to talk the Bishop out of going to the island where the hermits live?

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

3. What does the doctor say about Major Kovalyov's missing nose?

4. What happens when the narrator of "The Clothesmender" and the gossip are walking to the tailor's house to inspect the room?

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

6. Who visits the stationmaster's grave at the end of the story and what does he realize?

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

8. What are the two different types of collegiate assessors?

9. What does Pyotr Petrovich say about hunting in the rain?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is it that Varka becomes a nanny to the cobbler's baby? What has happened to her family? How is she treated by the cobbler and his wife?

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

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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