THE NOSE

1. What does Ivan Yakovlevich do for a living?
He is a barber.

2. What does Ivan find in a loaf of bread?
He finds a nose. The nose of Collegiate Assessor Kovalev, a man that he shaves.

3. How does his wife respond to Ivan's discovery?
She gets angry and threatens to report him to the police for cutting off someone's nose.

4. What does Ivan set out to accomplish?

He wants to get rid of the nose. 

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? 

Happiness is transient and as soon as you finally find happiness it can be taken away in an instant.

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

The title is "The Nose" and they nose that Ivan accidentally finds leads to a world a trouble that he wasn't expecting.