Getmanova Valentina Leonidovna
Job title: teacher
Educational institution: OGAPOU "Alekseevsky College"
Locality: Alekseevka, Belgorod region
Name of material: Literature test
Subject: Test on the work of A.I. Kuprin" Garnet bracelet"
Publication date: 10.09.2016
Chapter: secondary vocational

Option 1

1. What genre does the work of A.I. belong to?

Kuprin “Garnet Bracelet”?
1) story 2) story 3) poem 4) novel
2. Where do the events of the work take place?
1) In Moscow 2) In Odessa 3) In the Black Sea city 4) In St. Petersburg
3. What is the name of the main character?
1) Anna 2) Vera 3) Jenny 4) Dasha
4.Who was Vera Sheina’s ancestor?
1) Tamerlane 2) Timur 3) Genghis Khan 4) Tokhtamysh
5.What is the name of Princess Vera’s husband?
1. Nikolai Nikolaevich 2. Vasily Lvovich 3. Georgy Stepanovich 4. Ivan Konstantinovich
6.

His position?
1. Leader of the nobility 2. Retired general 3. Chamberlain 4. Professor
7.

What did her husband give her?
1. Necklace 2. Earrings 3. Bracelet 4. Ring
8.

What was the name of the famous pianist?

Vera's friend?
1. Anna 2. Lyudmila 3. Jenny 4. Julie
9.

Who is Zheltkov?
1. Official 2. Prosecutor 3. Lieutenant 4. Telegraph operator
10.

Whose portrait is this?
“She was half a head shorter, somewhat broad in the shoulders, lively and frivolous, a mocker. Her face, of a very Mongolian type with quite noticeable cheekbones, with narrow eyes... captivated with some elusive and incomprehensible charm..." 1. Vera 2. Zhenni 3. Anna 4. Lyudmila
11. Recognize the hero by description.
“According to modern customs, this fragment of antiquity seemed to be a gigantic and unusually picturesque figure. He combined precisely those simple, but touching and deep features that even in his time were much more common in privates than in officers, those purely Russian, peasant features that, when combined, give a sublime image that sometimes made our soldier not only invincible , but also a great martyr, almost a saint - traits consisting of an ingenuous, naive faith, a clear, good-natured and cheerful outlook on life, cold and businesslike courage, humility in the face of death, pity for the vanquished, endless patience and amazing physical and moral endurance " .
1) Count Shein 2) Professor Speshnikov 3) General Anosov 4) Colonel Ponamarev
12. Who owns the words:
“Love is unselfish, selfless, and does not expect reward? The one about whom it is said “strong as death”? Do you understand, the kind of love for which to accomplish any feat, to give one’s life, to suffer torment is not work at all, but pure joy”?

1) Zheltkov 2) Countess Vera Sheina 3) General Anosov 4) Count Vasily Shein
13. What is the name of the technique used in
the passage below?

“The room was very low, but very wide and long, almost square in shape. Two round windows, quite similar to steamship portholes, barely illuminated her. And the whole place looked like the cabin of a cargo ship. Along one wall there was a narrow bed, along the other a very large and wide sofa, covered with a beautiful tattered Tekin carpet, in the middle there was a table covered with a colored Little Russian tablecloth.”

1) interior 2) portrait 3) landscape 4) detail
14. What is the name of the comparison technique?
correlation of different objects, highlighted in
the passage below?
3) self-sacrifice for the sake of love 4) the destructive influence of money

Test on the work of A.I. Kuprina Garnet bracelet"

Option 2

1.What time of year does the action take place?

works?
1) Winter 2) Autumn 3) Spring 4) Summer
2.

Last name of Princess Sheina

marriage?
1) Anosova 2) Mirza-Bulat-Tuganovskaya 3) Reiter 4) Friesse
3.

What is the name of Vera's sister?
1) Daria 2) Zhenni 3) Lyudmila 4) Anna
4.

What date was the name day?

Princess Vera Sheina?
1) September 17 2) October 17 3) November 17 4) December 17
5.

What did your sister give Vera?
1) Prayer book 2) Vase 3) Garnet bracelet 4) Beautiful earrings
6.

Who gave the bracelet with garnets?
1) Husband 2) Sister 3) Grandfather 4) Unknown admirer
7.

What does Vera compare with?

red garnets?
1) With sunset 2) With dawn 3) With blood 4) With cherry
8.

What does his owner call Zheltkov?
1) Pan Ezhiy 2) Mister Zheltkov 3) Lieutenant Speshnikov 4) Vasyuchok
9.

What was the name of the husband of Anna, Vera's sister?
1) Gustav Ivanovich 2) German Petrovich 3) Georgy Stepanovich 4) Gavriil Romanovich
10.

Find out the hero by description.
“... took after her mother, a beautiful Englishwoman, with her tall flexible figure, gentle but cold and proud face, beautiful, although rather large hands and that charming sloping shoulders that can be seen in ancient Miniatures.” 1) Anna 2) Vera 3) Jenny Reiter 4) Dasha
11
.
Find out the hero by description.
“He was tall, thin, with long, fluffy, soft hair.” 1) Prince Vasily Lvovich 2) Nikolai Nikolaevich 3) Count Shein 4) Zheltkov
12. Zheltkov’s real name?
1) Gregory 2) Herman 3) Gabriel 4) George
13. Who owns the words:
“I am eternally grateful to you just for the fact that you exist. I checked myself - this is not a disease, not a manic idea - this is love with which God wanted to reward me for something?
1) General Anosov 2) Count Shein 3) Nikolai Nikolaevich 4) Zheltkov

1) interior 2) portrait 3) landscape 4) detail
14. What is the name of the technique used in
“Now he became completely visible: very pale, with a gentle girlish face, with blue eyes and a stubborn childish chin with a dimple in the middle; He must have been about thirty, thirty-five years old.”

1) landscape 2) portrait 3) detail 4) interior
15. What ideological load does it not carry? Garnet bracelet? 1) Is an expensive gift for a beloved woman on her birthday.
2) Is a symbol

true love

.

3) Reflects the essence of Zheltkov: the stones are poorly polished, but they are real, like the feelings of this person.
1. 2 1. 2 2. 3 2. 2 3. 2 3. 4 4. 1 4. 1 5. 2 5. 1 6. 1 6. 4 7. 2 7. 3 8. 3 8. 1 9. 1 9. 1 10. 3 10. 2 11. 3 11. 4 12. 3 12. 4 13. 1 13. 4 14. 2 14. 2 15. 4 15. 1
4) It is a reflection of the motive of death (“like blood”).
5 – 1 error 4 – 2-4 errors 3 – 5-7 errors 2 – 8 or more

TEST

Option I

a) Looking at the late Zheltkov, Vera Nikolaevna remembered that “she saw the same peaceful expression on the masks of the great sufferers - Pushkin and ______________.”

a) Kutuzov b) Lermontov c) Napoleon d) Dantes

b) General Anosov’s words about love are especially important in the story: “Love must be ______________. The greatest secret in the world!”

a) tragedy b) art c) love d) closed

c) From the description of Vera Nikolaevna at the beginning of the story: “... she was strictly simple, cold with everyone and a little patronizingly kind, independent and royally ______________.”

a) beautiful b) stately c) happy d) calm

d) “Exactly___________!” - Vera Nikolaevna thought with unexpected anxiety, looking at the bracelet given to her.

a) blood b) pomegranate c) wound d) death

e) After dinner at the Sheins’ they “usually played ___________, since both sisters were ridiculously fond of gambling”.

a) solitaire b) fool c) drunkard d) poker

a) “... lifted the red case from the table and immediately threw it in its place with disgust...”

b) “Her face is of a strongly Mongolian type with quite noticeable cheekbones, with narrow eyes, which she also squinted due to myopia, with an arrogant expression in her small, sensual mouth, especially in her full lower lip slightly protruded forward - this face, however, captivated by some elusive and incomprehensible charm, which consisted, perhaps, in a smile, perhaps in the deep femininity of all features, perhaps in a piquant, perky, flirtatious facial expression.”

d) “...despite his prominent position in society, and perhaps thanks to it, he barely made ends meet. Huge family estate was almost completely upset by his ancestors, and he had to live beyond his means...”

c) Zheltkov d) Vasyuchok

e) “His eyes sparkled and were deep, as if filled with unshed tears. And it was clear that he completely forgot about social decency, about who should sit where, and stopped behaving like a gentleman.”

a) Nikolai Nikolaevich b) Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein

c) Zheltkov d) Gustav Ivanovich Friesse

a) “I feel sorry for this man. And not only am I sorry, but I feel that I am present at some enormous tragedy of the soul, and I cannot clown around here.”

c) Zheltkov d) General Anosov

b) “It so happened that nothing in life interests me: neither politics, nor science, nor philosophy, nor concern for the future happiness of people...”

a) Zheltkov b) General Anosov

c) “Men are to blame; at twenty years old, jaded, with chicken bodies and hare souls, incapable of strong desires, To heroic deeds, to tenderness and adoration before love.”

a) Lieutenant Bakhtinsky b) Zheltkov

c) Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein d) General Anosov

d) “Tomorrow he sends a ring with diamonds, the day after tomorrow a pearl necklace, and then, lo and behold, he will sit in the dock for embezzlement or forgery, and the princes of Shein will be called as witnesses... Nice situation!”

e) “When I look from such a height, I always have a sweet and disgusting tickling in my chest... and my toes ache... And yet it pulls, pulls...”

TEST

“Garnet bracelet” by A.I. Kuprin

Option II

1) Choose the missing word:

a) Vera Nikolaevna, looking at the bracelet, “could not take her eyes off the five scarlet ______________ lights trembling inside the five garnets.”

a) beautiful b) hellish c) bloody d) burning

b) At the end of the story, the words “______________________” from Zheltkov’s letter are used as a kind of refrain.

a) “Love your neighbor as yourself” b) “Thou shalt not kill”

c) "Hallowed be it" your name" d) "Do not create an idol for yourself"

c) Vera Nikolaevna regarding her sister’s gift: “But you know, Anna, only you could have come up with the crazy idea of ​​​​turning ___________ into a ladies’ carnet.”

a) dictionary b) book c) brochure d) prayer book

d) The action in the story takes place on Vera Nikolaevna’s name day - _____________ (date).

e) Zheltkov, when meeting with Prince Shein and Vera Nikolaevna’s brother, spoke “with just his jaws, his lips were white and did not move, like __________’s.”

a) paralyzed b) dead c) inanimate d) sick

2) Which of the characters is described (characterized) this way?

a) “He transferred all his hidden tenderness of soul and the need for heartfelt love to these children, especially to girls. He himself was once married, but so long ago that he even forgot about it.”

a) Vasyuchok b) Nikolai Nikolaevich c) General Anosov d) Zheltkov

b) “She denied herself in many ways and, as far as possible, saved in the household.”

a) wife of General Anosov b) Vera Nikolaevna c) Anna Nikolaevna Friesse

c) “...very pale, with a gentle girlish face, blue eyes and a stubborn childish chin with a dimple in the middle; he must have been about thirty, thirty-five years old.”

a) Zheltkov b) Lieutenant Bakhtinsky c) Vasyuchok d) Nikolai Nikolaevich

d) “She had a rare beauty of back, chest, and shoulders. Going to big balls, she exposed herself much more than the limits allowed by decency and fashion, but they said that under her low neckline she always wore a hair shirt.”

a) wife of General Anosov b) Vera Nikolaevna

c) Anna Nikolaevna Friesse

e) “Motovka, actress, slob, greedy. And the eyes are always deceitful, deceitful..."

a) wife of General Anosov b) Vera Nikolaevna c) Anna Nikolaevna Friesse

3) To which character do these words belong?

a) “When I see the sea for the first time, after a long time, it excites me, and makes me happy, and amazes me. It’s as if I’m seeing a huge, solemn miracle for the first time. But then, when I get used to it, it begins to crush me with its flat emptiness. I miss looking at him, and I’m trying not to look anymore. It gets boring.”

a) wife of General Anosov b) Vera Nikolaevna c) Anna Nikolaevna Friesse

b) “And I want to say that people nowadays have forgotten how to love. I don't see true love. And I haven’t seen it in my time!”

a) Zheltkov b) General Anosov

c) Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein d) Nikolai Nikolaevich

c) “But just look, what beauty, what joy - the eye just can’t get enough of it. If you only knew how grateful I am to God for all the miracles he has done for us!”

a) wife of General Anosov b) Vera Nikolaevna c) Anna Nikolaevna Friesse

d) “It seemed to me that I was present at the enormous suffering from which people die, and I even almost realized that in front of me was a dead person.”

a) General Anosov b) Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein

c) Vasyuchok d) Gustav Ivanovich Friesse

e) “Instead of business, we are making some kind of melodic declamation... The question is very short...”

a) Nikolai Nikolaevich b) Gustav Ivanovich Friesse

c) General Anosov d) Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein

TEST “Garnet Bracelet” by A.I. Kuprin

Option III

1) Choose the missing word:

a) “Where is love? Is love unselfish, selfless, not waiting for reward? The one about which it is said - “___________________”?

a) “strong as a warrior” b) “strong as death”

c) “strong as life” d) “strong as love”

b) From the description of the evening in the house of the Shein princes: “Before getting up from the table, Vera Nikolaevna mechanically counted the guests. It turned out - ______".

a) 13 b) 7 c) 12 d) 6

c) At the end of the story, pianist Jenny Reiter plays the second sonata ___________ (composer), which Zheltkov talks about in his note.

a) Bach b) Mussorgsky c) Tchaikovsky d) Beethoven

d) Vera Nikolaevna, after the news of Zheltkova’s suicide, thought to herself: “Why did I have a presentiment of this? Is it this tragic outcome? And what was it: love or ________________?”

a) illness b) attachment c) madness d) insanity

e) From the description of the bracelet: “Vera lifted the lid, lined with pale blue silk, and saw an oval _________ bracelet squeezed into black velvet...”

a) tin b) garnet c) silver d) gold

2) Which of the characters is described (characterized) this way?

a) “He had an extraordinary and very peculiar ability to narrate. He based the story on a true episode, where the main actor one of those present or a mutual acquaintance appears, but he exaggerates his colors so much and at the same time speaks with such a serious face and such a businesslike tone that the listeners burst out laughing.”

a) Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein b) Lieutenant Bakhtinsky

c) Vasyuchok d) Nikolai Nikolaevich

b) “...he laughed loudly and enthusiastically, and his thin, smooth, shiny skin face, with slicked, thin, blond hair, with sunken eye orbits, looked like a skull, revealing very nasty teeth in laughter.”

a) Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein b) Gustav Ivanovich Friesse

c) Vasyuchok d) Nikolai Nikolaevich

c) “...famous in St. Petersburg as the best dancer and incomparable ball manager.”

a) Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein b) Lieutenant Bakhtinsky

c) Vasyuchok d) Nikolai Nikolaevich

d) “According to modern customs, this fragment of antiquity seemed to be a gigantic and unusually picturesque figure. He combined precisely those simple, but touching and deep features that even in his time were much more common in privates than in officers, those purely Russian, peasant features that, when combined, give a sublime image that sometimes made our soldier not only invincible , but also a great martyr, almost a saint...”

a) Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein b) General Anosov

c) Zheltkov d) Vasyuchok

e) “...took after her mother, a beautiful Englishwoman, with her tall flexible figure, gentle but cold and proud face, beautiful, although rather large hands and that charming sloping shoulders that can be seen in ancient miniatures.”

a) Anna Nikolaevna Friesse b) Vera Nikolaevna c) wife of General Anosov

3) To which character do these words belong?

a) “...is it possible to control such a feeling as love, a feeling that has not yet found an interpreter.”

a) Lieutenant Bakhtinsky b) Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein

c) Zheltkov d) General Anosov

b) “If you ask the parents if the child is a vicious child - so you can imagine - they are even offended! And now the shelter is open, consecrated, everything is ready - and not a single pupil, not a single pupil!”

a) Vera Nikolaevna b) Anna Nikolaevna Friesse c) wife of General Anosov

c) “I love the forest. Do you remember the forest in Yegorovskoye?.. Can it ever get boring? Pines!.. And what mosses!.. And fly agarics! Exactly made of red satin and embroidered with white beads. How quiet... it’s cool.”

a) Anna Nikolaevna Friesse b) wife of General Anosov c) Vera Nikolaevna

d) “The matter, in my opinion, goes beyond those boundaries where you can laugh and draw funny pictures...”

a) General Anosov b) Nikolai Nikolaevich

c) Vasyuchok d) Gustav Ivanovich Friesse

e) “Mark my words that in thirty years women will occupy unheard of power in the world. They will dress like Indian idols. They will trample on us men like despicable, groveling slaves... This will be revenge.”

a) Zheltkov b) Gustav Ivanovich Friesse

c) General Anosov d) Prince Vasily Lvovich Shein

ANSWERS

Option III

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G)

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e)

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Test based on the story “Garnet Bracelet” by A.I. Kuprin.

1. State the last name, first name and patronymic of the main character.

A. Anna Nikolaevna Sheina

B. Vera Nikolaevna Sheina

V. Jenny Reiter

G. Alexandra Petrovna Nikolaeva

2. From what holiday did the princess expect something “happy-wonderful”?

A. from New Year

B. from Christmas

V. from the arrival of her husband

G. From name day

3. What gift did Vasily Lvovich give to his wife?

A. earrings made of pear-shaped pearls

B. garnet bracelet

V. ring with pearl

G. Necklace with garnet

4. What is the name of the general who was a comrade and friend of the late father?.

A. Anosov

B. Romashov

V. Nikolaev

G. Beck - Agamalov

5. How many guests were there? festive table?

6. Which one card game were the guests playing?

G. fool

7. What property does green pomegranate have?

A. brings happiness

B. heals from serious illnesses

B. gift of foresight

G. Protects from the evil eye

8. Which one musical instrument was the general playing?

A. on the violin

B. on guitar

V. on the flute

G. on the piano

9. What color was the case with the garnet bracelet?

A. green

B. red

V. black

G. blue

10. “We all know our city well. Everyone lives exactly in…..What object is life in the city compared to?

A. in an aquarium

B. in a glass jar

V. in an iron barrel

G. in a cage

11. What was Zheltkov’s room like?

A. on the pencil case

B. on the glasses case

V. to the cabin - company

G. to the pantry

12. How did the princess know about Zheltkov’s death?

A. from the newspaper

B. from the maid

V. from sister

G. from my husband

13. What position did Zheltkov hold?

A. telegraph operator

B. official of the control chamber

V. Assistant Prosecutor

G. General's adjutant

14. Who owns the words: “...maybe yours life path crossed the real, selfless, true love?

A. the princess's sister

B. Zheltkov

V. to the princess's brother

G. general

15. At the concerts of which composer did Zheltkov often see the princess?

A. Beethoven

B. Mozart

V. Chopin

G. Tchaikovsky

16. On what street did Zheltkov live?

A. Lutheran

B. Nevskaya

V. German

G. Jewish

17. They (the words) coincided in her thoughts with the music, that it was like verses that ended with words...

I love you!

B. I won't forget you
Q. I will love you forever.

G. Hallowed be thy name!

Compiled by: O.S. Dyatlova, teacher of Russian language and literature, MKOU Novoyarkovsk secondary school, Barabinsky district, Novosibirsk region

Test for knowledge of the content of A. Kuprin’s story “Garnet Bracelet”

Grade 11

1) The events described begin on the coast…

A. Baltic Sea

B. Black Sea

IN. Sea of ​​Azov

G. Caspian Sea

2) The main character the story's name is…

A. Anna Nikolaevna Friesse

B. Vera Nikolaevna Sheina

V. Zhenya Reiter

G. Lyudmila Lvovna Durasova

A. Anna Nikolaevna Friesse

B. Vera Nikolaevna Sheina

V. Zhenya Reiter

G. Lyudmila Lvovna Durasova

4) Identify the heroine from the description: “...inherited the Mongol blood of her father, the Tatar prince...she was half a head shorter than her sister, somewhat broad in the shoulders, lively and frivolous, a mocker.»

A. Anna Nikolaevna Friesse

B. Vera Nikolaevna Sheina

V. Zhenya Reiter

G. Lyudmila Lvovna Durasova

5) Princess Vera's husband's name is…

A. General Anosov

B. Nikolai Nikolaevich

V. Gustav Ivanovich

G. Vasily Lvovich

6) Anna Nikolaevna's husband's name is…

A. General Anosov

B. Nikolai Nikolaevich

V. Gustav Ivanovich

G. Vasily Lvovich

7) Find the continuation of the phrase: “Princess Vera, whose former passionate love for her husband has long turned into…»

A. into the same passionate hatred

B. irresistible disgust

B. a feeling of lasting, faithful, true friendship

G. calm, thoughtful, faithful love

8) Her husband Anna Nikolaevna…

A. hated passionately

B. madly in love

V. simply idolized

G. couldn't stand it

9) Choose what was common between the sisters Vera Nikolaevna and Anna Nikolaevna:

A. were very beautiful

B. liked to flirt with men

V. were not faithful to their husbands

G. were faithful to their husbands

D. loved gambling

A. birthday

B. name day

V. housewarming

G. angel day

11) Most of all Princess Vera loved…

12) Princess Sheina's friend's name was…

A. Anna Nikolaevna

B. Vera Nikolaevna

V. Zhenya Reiter

G. Lyudmila Lvovna

13) Princess Vera received a garnet bracelet as a gift from…

B. lover

V. fan

14) B bracelet among the red garnets there was one garnet…

A. lilac color

B. blue-black

V. black

G. Green colour

15) Zheltkov signed his letter…

A. Yours before death and after death, your humble servant. G.S.J.

B. Yours before death and after death, your humble servant. Zheltkov.

B. With love and respect to you. Your G.S.J.

G. With love and respect to you. Your Zheltkov.

16) When Princess Vera received the letter, she...

A. tore it up

B. immediately hid it

V. burned it

G. showed the letter to her husband

17) This man told Vera: “.. maybe your path in life... was crossed by exactly the kind of love that women dream about and which men are no longer capable of.”

A. brother Nikolai

B. General Anosov

V. friend

G. sister Anna

A. brother Nikolai

B. Vera's husband

V. General Anosov

G. Hussar Bakhtinsky

19) Zheltkov by occupation was…

A. provincial leader of the nobility

B. assistant prosecutor

V. a small official

G. city commandant

20) At the end of the events described, Zheltkov…

A. moves to another city

B. kills himself

V. gets caught by the police

G. is challenged to a duel by Vera's husband

21) IN farewell letter Vera Zheltkov asks to remember him to the music…

A. Glinka

B. Tchaikovsky

V. Mussorgsky

G. Beethoven

22) Further fate bracelet: it was…

A. resold

B. thrown into the sea

V. destroyed

G. hanged on an icon

23) When saying goodbye to Zheltkov Faith…

A. kissed him on the forehead

B. kissed him on the cheek

V. kissed him on the lips

G. slapped him

D. hugged him

24) Who owns the saying: “The Garnet Bracelet is one of the most fragrant, yearning and saddest stories about love”?

A. Tolstoy A.K.

B. Gorky M.

V. Sholokhov M.

G. Paustovsky K.G.

Assessment

Each correct answer is scored 1 point. Maximum amount The points you can score for the test are 27. Correct answers:

Number of points

Tatiana Shekhanova

Tatyana Sergeevna SHEKHANOVA is a teacher at Moscow Lyceum No. 1536, a member of the Union of Writers of Russia, the Union of Journalists of Russia.

“Garnet bracelet” in questions and answers

Due to the reduction in hours for literature, many teachers complain about a lack of time, especially in high school. Scissors arise between the requirements of the standard and the real situation, in which one often has to not even pass, but “run through” the work.

One way to neutralize these scissors is to unload the high school program (especially graduation) by redistributing the material. Some of the works can easily be transferred to the 8th–9th grades: they are accessible to teenagers by age and can be combined into semantic blocks with the works traditionally studied in these classes.

This can be done, for example, with the “Garnet Bracelet” by A.I. Kuprin, which successfully fits in with “Romeo and Juliet”, knightly ballads, Turgenev’s stories, Bunin’s stories, love lyrics different times.

To help language learners who decide to take this step, we are printing ten questions and answers about the story “The Garnet Bracelet,” which will help them take an “inventory” of information before planning a lesson, and will also serve as reference lines for the lesson.

1. Compare Vera and Anna. Are they happy? Why did you decide so?

2. Tell us about Prince Shein, Nikolai Nikolaevich, General Anosov. They have a successful career and a strong position in society. Are these heroes happy?

3. What is the meaning of the love stories told by General Anosov? What are the causes of unhappiness in all three stories?

4. Why is it that General Anosov feels, first of all, the different scale of Zheltkov’s experiences and spiritual life?

5. What are Nikolai Nikolaevich, Vasily Lvovich and she herself doing “wrong”, in Vera’s words? What does one Zheltkov do “so”?

6. How does Zheltkov change over “seven years of hopeless and polite love”? Tell us about Zheltkov’s “three steps” in his last attempt to explain himself - with Shein, with Vera and, finally, with everyone (with his departure).

7. How do the images of General Anosov and the petty official Zheltkov, who have never met, compare? Images of Pushkin and Napoleon - “great sufferers”?

8. What do you think is the role of the epigraph and ring composition in the Largo Appassionato theme from Beethoven’s Second Sonata (Op. 2), associated with the theme of true love and true life?

9. Analyze the motifs of the rose, the letter, the symbolism of the detail (the bracelet is a gift from Zheltkov, the earrings are a gift from Shein), gesture, and numbers. What is their role in the story?

10. How can you interpret the ending of the story?

1. Sisters Vera and Anna, on the one hand, are similar: both are married, both have influential husbands, both love to be with each other, cherish these moments. On the other hand, they are antipodes: this is manifested both in their portraits (Vera’s English thoroughbred and Tatar breed, Anna’s “graceful ugliness”) and in their attitude (Vera follows secular customs, Anna is willful and daring, but to a certain limit: “ wears a hair shirt under a deep neckline”), and in them family life(Vera does not know that she does not love her husband, because she does not know love, and Anna is aware of her dislike for her husband, but, having agreed to the marriage, tolerates him). In the latter - in an unhappy married life - both are similar. Faith is, as it were, “lost” in everyday life, her beauty is not noticeable, her exclusivity is erased (for everyone and for herself), and Anna “despises” her foolish husband and is rewarded with children who seem to be pretty, but with “mealy” faces.

2. Prince Shein is respected in society, as evidenced by his position, he is outwardly prosperous (there are not enough funds, but he manages to hide this; he is not aware of the “lack of love” in the family). Nikolai Nikolaevich is proud of his rank, position, active and outwardly also prosperous; however, he is alone, which is remarkable. General Anosov, one of the most charming heroes of the story, is also lonely. A brave soldier, in his old age he is left without a family home. This is the main misfortune of all three heroes.

3. “Girls” in comparison with the ancient General Anosov, Vera and Anya ask him about love. The general answers this three times. Two parables are about the fact that there is “not love, but some kind of sourness” (fake, delusion), and one is a story own life- about anti-love. The meaning of all three inserted short stories: this feeling requires no less strength and spiritual boldness than achievement. A person must be worthy of love and not humiliate it.

4. Unlike Vera, Vasily Lvovich, Nikolai Nikolaevich and even Anna with her sensitivity (“the sea smells like watermelon”, “there is a pink color in the moonlight”), the general shares the authenticity of the “telegraph operator” feeling and the “averageness” accepted in the world, erasure, rituality of relationships between people. Love requires the same heroism and dedication as the battlefield. In the vulgarized story in the mouth of Prince Shein about the “adventures of a telegraph operator,” Anosov hears notes of spiritual valor familiar to him, an old soldier.

5. The gift from the petty official Zheltkov to Princess Sheina did not make her happy and caused concern for the entire family, including her brother Nikolai Nikolaevich, assistant prosecutor. All this leads to a tragic ending. What did they do? not this way(according to Vera’s definition) Prince Shein and Nikolai Nikolaevich? They tried to stop Zheltkov’s feeling of love for Princess Vera by putting the insignificant, in their opinion, official “in his place.” That's why they go to him. Shein is passive, he is “attracted” by Nikolai Nikolaevich as material evidence of the guilt of Zheltkov, who encroached on Vera. She Married, and my husband is proof of this. Shein is silent and weak-willed, his attempts to interrupt Nikolai Nikolaevich’s peremptory speeches are sluggish. That's what it's about not this way. Nikolai Nikolaevich threatens Zheltkov, referring to his connections and official capabilities, that is, he acts, assuming that Zheltkov can become afraid and obediently stop loving Princess Vera, not suspecting that the nature of true love is such that it is not a person who controls it, but she controls a person. In that - not this way Nikolai Nikolaevich. Faith, having failed to accept the gift of love (and, as its manifestation, the gift of a bracelet), also acts not this way, because he lives not according to his own, but according to someone else’s rules, once established by someone, without feeling himself. She will come to her senses only after the news of Zheltkov’s death and saying goodbye to him (twice - with body and with soul).

6. Who is Zheltkov? It is not for nothing that at first we see a parodic reproduction of his strange behavior: it does not fit into the framework of decency. Shein parodicly interprets the letters and actions of G.Zh. There are reasons for this: Zheltkov’s early letter is very different from his later, and his passionate, awkward actions a young man in love- from deeds truly loving mature man. There is a growth of personality, and it is a high feeling that determines this growth, as evidenced by the vocabulary, structure of sentences, and the system of arguments of the “late” Zheltkov. Through parodic portraiture, we, readers, make our way, as if through an annoying obstacle, to the true appearance of Zheltkov’s personality. The hero's portrait and speech grow with him. The author teaches us to see not a place on the social ladder, but the person himself. He warns that, once we are convinced of a person’s imperfection, we do not stop seeing the prospect of his development, do not deny him the opportunity to improve, and ourselves the opportunity to see his self-improvement. Zheltkov takes three steps to explain himself to Shein, to Vera and, finally, to the whole world. Sheinu Zheltkov talks about love that cannot be resisted. But he promises that he won’t bother him again. Vera - she refuses to listen to Zheltkov - talks about the same thing, but posthumously (in a letter). And finally, his last explanation to the world and to everyone who can hear, is Beethoven's Sonata No. 2 - about life, death and love.

7. Zheltkov was never heard during his lifetime, just as Pushkin and Napoleon, the “great sufferers,” were not fully heard during their lifetime. It is here, after Zheltkov’s death, that Kuprin openly introduces the romantic motive of rejection and misunderstanding hero, elevating him above everyday life. It was not for nothing that only General Anosov, who knew the value of life, death and love, was able to hear this in the mocking speeches of Shein and especially Nikolai Nikolaevich. It is very important that small talk does not confuse the general; he questions Vera - and in response to her counter questions, he gives the definition of true love, which he himself was not awarded, but about which he thought a lot. Anosov and Zheltkov do not meet, but the general recognizes in him a hero who is not comparable in scale to Prince Shein, according to rumors about him.

8. The epigraph sets us up to listen to Beethoven’s sonata - a majestic, romantically elevated reflection on the gift of life and love. The story ends with these same sounds. Fanned by them, it teaches the same thing - not to be shallow, not to fuss, but to think and feel truly, in proportion to oneself. The music clearly tells Princess Vera, What there is life and What is love. This is Zheltkov’s last gift, which only the deaf can refuse. This generosity and mercy clarify the Faith to myself. This is how she will remain. This is the main gift of Zheltkov, who once in his youth saw the authenticity and perfection of Vera, which was unclear to her. Only three things can explain everything to a person so quickly - love, music and death. Kuprin combines all three in the finale of the story. This has a special meaning theme song, giving - from the epigraph to the last scene - exceptional completeness to the work.

9. The system of details and symbols in the story works intensely. The rose is a symbol not only of love, but also of the perfection of the universe. Throughout the entire story, only two heroes are awarded roses: General Anosov and Zheltkov (the latter posthumously). The gifts of Prince Shein (earrings with pearls - two disconnected objects, decorated with a symbol of sorrow and tears) and Zheltkov (garnet bracelet with a green garnet in the middle; a bracelet closed in a ring - the embodiment of harmony, a garnet, according to legend, brought joy and fun to its owner) are symbolic , and the green pomegranate communicated, as Zheltkov himself rightly warns, the gift of insight). The gestures of the heroes, especially the antipodes - Nikolai Nikolaevich and Zheltkov - when explaining to each other are symbolic.

10. All these observations allow us to conclude that Kuprin’s theme of romantic love is unusually deep and attractive. It is deceptively simple. In fact, behind its transparency there is depth and scope. It is not without reason that such powerful symbolic images as Pushkin, Napoleon, and Beethoven appear in the artistic space of the story. Another image is unnamed, subtly present here - Prince Myshkin (the portrait, the speech in the scene of Zheltkov’s explanation with Shein and Nikolai Nikolaevich remind us of him), Dostoevsky’s character. No wonder Kuprin says through the mouth of General Anosov that love is a “great tragedy.” However, despite the tragedy, love remains majestic and strong in our memory. This is the peculiarity of Kuprin’s approach to the topic.