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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 does Liza give the writer just before he leavesher?
2. What does the writer admit regarding his poverty?
3. The previous night, the writer gives Liza his address, but by the next day, how does the writer feel about this action?
4. Why does the writer say he hates Liza?
5. What does the writer do during the toast to Zverkov?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Zverkov's attitude toward the writer?
2. In Part 2, Chapter 8, the writer decides to borrow money from his friend Anton Antonych in order to repay Simonov. Why does Anton Antonych so readily lend the money?
3. In Part 2, Chapter 8, the writer is thinking back to the events of the previous day. He begins thinking about when he lit the room and saw Liza. How does he remember her face?
4. 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?
5. The writer describes some office clerks that repulse him. Discuss these characters.
6. 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?
7. The writer continues to ridicule Liza and her work and describes a rather somber death. What does the writer say a prostitute's death will be?
8. Describe the apartment of Anton Antonych.
9. 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.
10. What reasons does the writer give for loathing his old classmate Zverkov?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the tone of the dinner party. Is the writer happy to be there? Is he accepted? Does anything happen to change the tone during the party?
Essay Topic 2
What is the Underground? How long has the writer lived in the Underground? Are there others living in the Underground? What do you think the Underground represents to the writer?
Essay Topic 3
In Part 1, Chapter 5, the writer seems very concerned about making the distinction between intelligent and unintelligent people. Discuss the writer's view on intelligent versus unintelligent people. How does he distinguish them? How does he feel about each? How does the writer view himself in this regard?
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