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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 Anisim caught with counterfeit?
2. Who is the only person who can behave comfortably around Bishop Pyotr?
3. What feeling does Bishop Pyotr instill in people?
4. Whom does Marya talk with easily?
5. What is the one thing Olga Semyonovna from "The Darling" cannot live without?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the Tsybukins' reaction to Nikifor's death?
2. Describe the town of Ukleyevo from "In the Ravine". What is life like there?
3. How is Pyotr different as a person and as a bishop?
4. 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?
5. In "The Bishop", what is Bishops Pyotr's relationship with his mother Marya like when she visits him after nine years?
6. How are the homes of Lida and the artist, from "The House with the Mezzanine", symbolic of their respective personalities?
7. In "On Official Business", why does the coroner believe the city is the center of Russia? What does he think of the village and countryside?
8. 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?
9. In "The Lady with the Little Dog", how does Dmitri Dmitrich Gurov view women?
10. In "On Official Business", what is the difference between the coroner and the doctor in the way they view life?
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
From "A Boring Story", write an essay about male/male and female/female relationships. Base answers on Stepanych and Mr. Gnekker's relationship for male/male and Varya and Liza's relationship with Katya for female/female. Why is it difficult for Stepanych to like Mr. Gnekker and why is it difficult for Liza and Varya to like Katya and vice versa?
Essay Topic 3
Belikov in "The Man in a Case" physically covers himself and his objects as much as possible no matter what the weather. What is this lifestyle symbolic of? What is Belikov really trying to keep out or in?
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