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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 Katya's reaction to Pyotr's title as bishop?
2. Who is the only person who can behave comfortably around Bishop Pyotr?
3. What brings Anna back home to her husband?
4. In, "In the Ravine", what is the village Ukleyevo known for?
5. Whom does Marya talk with easily?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "The Lady with the Little Dog", why does Dmitri Gurov see Anna Sergeeva differently than all the other women in his life? What makes her so much more appealing?
2. In "At Christmastime", what kind of family life does Vasilisa's daughter have in Petersburg? How does this affect her relationship with her parents?
3. Describe Belikov from "The Man in a Case" and what makes him so different from everyone else in his village. What influence does he have on the people around him?
4. How does Korolev show judgment on the Lialikovs?
5. In "The Bishop", what is Bishops Pyotr's relationship with his mother Marya like when she visits him after nine years?
6. Dr. Starchenko from "On Official Business" mentions old folks disliking this "nervous age." What might this "nervous age" refer to?
7. What helps Olga keep her youth and what ages her so much?
8. How are the homes of Lida and the artist, from "The House with the Mezzanine", symbolic of their respective personalities?
9. In "The Lady with the Little Dog", how does Dmitri Dmitrich Gurov view women?
10. Compare and contrast Olga's husbands and lovers. How are their personality types alike and different? How does this affect Olga as a person?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Based on Chekhov's stories, write about what his philosophy might be.
Essay Topic 3
The only thing Varka in "Sleepy" wants is sleep. Eventually she gets it by killing the baby that cries. Anton Chekhov writes, "and a moment later [Varka] is already fast asleep, like the dead..." Why does Chekhov write an ellipsis at the end of Varka's story? What is the reader led to believe?
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