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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Liza's profession?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Homemaker.
(c) Prostitute.
(d) Barmaid.
2. How does the writer feel about the time of his arrival at the dinner party?
(a) Ashamed.
(b) Appalled.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Happy.
3. What reason does the writer give for his behavior at work?
(a) Out of spite.
(b) He is a coward.
(c) That is how educated men act.
(d) He is superior to the others.
4. How much does the writer owe Simonov in this section?
(a) 6 roubles.
(b) 10 roubles
(c) 15 roubles.
(d) 5 roubles.
5. What is the writer certain Liza will do with a letter she receives?
(a) Throw it away.
(b) Frame it.
(c) Preserve it forever.
(d) Send it back.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the writer give as his reason for visiting Liza?
2. When the writer goes back to the dinner party after being outside, what does he find?
3. What effect does the writer's speech about Liza's life have on Liza?
4. In Part 2, a number of event happen to the writer, including going to a dinner party with old friends and meeting a prostitute. How does the writer feel about the events that happen that day?
5. After leaving his friend's home, how much does the writer pay for a cab ride?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the writer compare Liza to and how does he explain that even this is better than being a prostitute?
2. When Liza visits the writer at his home, the situation seems rather intense. What does the writer say that people often do in such situations?
3. After the writer has finished his speech to Liza, he turns to leave. Before he goes, she gives him a letter to read. Who was the letter from and what did it say?
4. The writer describes some office clerks that repulse him. Discuss these characters.
5. In Part 2, Chapter 6, the writer wakes up to a clock chiming. How does he describe the clock?
6. Why is the writer surprised that Liza does not leave after being lied to and yelled at?
7. In Part 2, Chapter 1, the writer discusses his feelings about his job. What are these feelings?
8. The writer seems very indecisive at times. While in the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 1 the writer states that he does not socialize with his co-workers, he later tells the reader that he sometimes tries to make friends with them. Discuss his feelings about this change in attitude toward the co-workers.
9. What is Zverkov's reaction to the writer's complaint about not being informed of the change in time for the dinner party?
10. At the end of Part 2, Chapter 5, the writer is in the room with the prostitute and glances in the mirror. What does he see and how does he feel about it?
This section contains 811 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
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