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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Cossacks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marya find after she gives birth?
(a) A sharp impatience.
(b) A deeper religious sense.
(c) A new kind of happiness.
(d) Greater depression.

2. How does Marya say her marriage to Sergey affects her relationship with the world?
(a) It makes her rhapsodic.
(b) It makes her vulnerable.
(c) It makes her curious.
(d) It makes her oblivious.

3. What causes Marya Alexandrovna's depression?
(a) Her husband's death.
(b) Her father's drunkenness.
(c) Her mother's death.
(d) Her brother's illness.

4. What causes Sergey to say that he and Marya must return to the country?
(a) Her pregnancy.
(b) Her illness.
(c) His affair with a girl in Moscow.
(d) His finances.

5. Who are the Grebensk Cossacks descended from?
(a) Original Russian migrants.
(b) Tartars.
(c) Katherine the Great.
(d) Alexander the Great.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Marya's boredom and depression turn into?

2. Who lives beyond the Muslim Tartars?

3. What is Marya's first reaction to Sergey?

4. How would you describe the nature Dmitri expects to find in the Caucasus?

5. What does Dmitri encounter in the Caucasus?

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