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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 a panikhida?
2. In "Peasant Woman", what does Dyudya enjoy about having visitors?
3. What does Yegor Semyonych in "The Black Monk" believe is the key to his orchard's success?
4. Dr. Yefimych lacks what as a doctor?
5. The university Stepanych works at can be described as __________.
Short Essay Questions
1. What stops Nevyrazimov from moving up in the world?
2. Modest Alexeich admonishes Anya and her family about how a "man must have his responsibilities!" Between Modest, Anya, and her family, who shows responsibilities best?
3. Compare and contrast Mashenka and Matvei's reaction to Vasya's letter that he is returning home.
4. Describe Maria's upbringing under Andreich. What is Andreich's role in her life?
5. Describe Anya's character and how it changes from the beginning of "Anna on the Neck" to the end.
6. Dr. Andrei Yefimych states that Ivan Dmitrich is "interested in precisely the right things." What are these right things?
7. When a fellow soldier asks Gusev if he is not afraid to die, what is his response? How does his response reflect his character?
8. What consumes Bronze so much in life over the last 50 years in "Rothschild's Fiddle"?
9. Describe how Olga Ivanovna and her friends treat Osip. How does this turn on Olga?
10. Why does the black monk make Andrei Kovrin feel good?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Although Andrei Kovrin from "The Black Monk" knows the black monk is a hallucination it makes him feel good. What is the driving force of these hallucinations? How does the black monk make Andrei feel better about life?
Essay Topic 2
From "The Death of a Clerk", discuss how Cherviakov's and the General's reactions to one another heightens the matter between the two of them. How does their personality add to the situation?
Essay Topic 3
The main character in "Easter Night" reminds Ieronym, a monk, how all people die, and how his friend Nikolai, another monk, is lucky to die on the eve of Easter. Although Ieronym is trained as a monk, how do his reasoning and his heart play contrasting roles as he grieves over Nikolai.
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