the Nose

Quiz: The Nose

1. What does Ivan Yakovlevich do for a living? 

- Ivan is a barber.

2. What does Ivan find in a loaf of bread? 

- He finds a nose inside of a bread. 

3. How does his wife respond to Ivan's discovery? 

- His wife wants him to dispose it. 

4. What does Ivan set out to accomplish? 

- He throws it in the river. 

5. When Ivan tosses the "package" in the river, for a brief moment he is happy; then he is arrested. What does this scene suggest about the role of happiness in Ivan's life/community/society? 

- That happiness only lasts for a short time in many cases, Ivan was arrested as soon as he got rid of the nose that was holding him back from freedom. 

6. Where does the title object belong, and how does it finally get there?

The play is called, "The Nose," it plays in a part of Ivan's life because he accidentally found a nose by chance, but it led him to another trouble, causing him to be involved in this missing nose.