View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the general doing at the end of Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Crying.
(b) Drinking milk.
(c) Kissing his wife.
(d) Laughing.

2. What happens to Tchitchikov's partner in crime from the customs office?
(a) He is murdered.
(b) He is exiled.
(c) He is put in jail for life.
(d) He kills himself.

3. How does Platon seem to feel about life?
(a) He is bored with it.
(b) He constantly worries about his life.
(c) He loves it.
(d) He hates it.

4. What does Tchitchikov tell the general that Andrey is writing about?
(a) European fashion trends.
(b) 16th century sonnets.
(c) Generals in the war of 1812.
(d) Napoleon.

5. How many houses are on the land Tchitchikov buys?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Andrey leave the general's house?

2. What does Tchitchikov tell Andrey he is missing?

3. How old is Andrey?

4. What does Tchitchikov compare his life to when introducing himself to the general?

5. What does Nozdroyov tell the men in town he helped Tchitchikov do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Tchitchikov happy to make Skudronzhoglo's acquaintance?

2. Why does Andrey quit his first job in Petersburg?

3. Why is Tchitchikov thrown in prison in Part 2, Chapter 5?

4. How does Andrey react when Tchitchikov visits him?

5. Why does Lyenitsyn considering selling his dead souls to Tchitchikov?

6. Why do the men of N. decide they do not want to be associated with Tchitchikov?

7. Why does Nozdroyov go to visit Tchitchikov?

8. Why does Madame Korobotcha come to N?

9. Why is Tchitchikov interested in Platon?

10. What reason does Tchitchikov give for why he wants to buy General Betrishtchev's dead souls?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 645 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample