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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 the nationality of the shop owner?

2. What does Schiller want Hoffman to cut off?

3. What do the men step outside to do?

4. What is the name of the king Ivanovich thinks he is?

5. What kind of robes did the old money lender wear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Piskarev visualize when he takes the opium?

2. How does Ivan dispose of Kovalev's nose?

3. What does Nikiforovich say to Ivanovich in court?

4. How do the regiment change the town?

5. What was the town of B like before the regiment arrived?

6. What is Pythagor's social standing?

7. What advice did Chartov's professor give him?

8. How does Kovalev react when his nose returns?

9. Describe the narrator of the story.

10. How does Ivanovich become King Ferdinand III?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the differences between a short story and a novel in terms of the following?

1. Language.

2. Character.

3. Structure.

Essay Topic 2

How do the students think Ivan developed his social fear in Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and his Aunt? How does Gogol use the other characters to accentuate Ivan's vulnerabilities?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of Gogol's previous works and contrast it with the The Collected Tales in terms of the following:

1. Style.

2. Structure.

3. Themes.

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