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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 Dmitri Gurov look to meet Anna in S.?

2. What is strange about Belikov in "The Man in a Case"?

3. What renews Olga's youth?

4. In "The House with the Mezzanine", the artist's lifestyle can be described as __________.

5. How is Lipa last seen?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Katya show how she feels about Pyotr's status as a bishop?

2. Compare and contrast Olga's husbands and lovers. How are their personality types alike and different? How does this affect Olga as a person?

3. How are the homes of Lida and the artist, from "The House with the Mezzanine", symbolic of their respective personalities?

4. According to Ivan Ivanych, what is the balance of sadness and happiness in the world?

5. What is the Tsybukins' reaction to Nikifor's death?

6. In "The Bishop", what is Bishops Pyotr's relationship with his mother Marya like when she visits him after nine years?

7. How does Olga become committed to Sasha?

8. In "On Official Business", what is the difference between the coroner and the doctor in the way they view life?

9. What is life like for Pyotr?

10. How does Korolev show judgment on the Lialikovs?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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