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A Problem and Luck

 

A Problem - Text and Luck - Text
Study Guide

1. How does Sasha cause a family problem?


2. What does Sasha’s uncle mean when he says that it would be “civic cowardice” to help Sasha?


3. How do you think Ivan Markovitch feels when Sasha asks for another loan?


4. Why is Sasha a static character?


5. What is the moral of “Luck”?


6. Why did the clergyman coach Scoresby for final examinations?


7. What is the clergyman’s motivation in telling the narrator his opinion of Scoreby?


8. What inference can be made about Scoreby based on the evidence that his military blunders are interpreted as “inspirations of genius’?


9. Who is a dynamic character in the story?


How is Scoreby a static character?