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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Alyosha the Pot.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Marya Dmitrievna denounce Hadji Aga and his men?
(a) As traitors.
(b) As swine.
(c) As cutthroats.
(d) As thieves.

2. What does Vasili decide to do when they have lost the road?
(a) Continue through potato fields.
(b) Cast about in circles for the road.
(c) Camp where they are.
(d) Backtrack.

3. What effect do visits to Moscow and Petersburg have on Marya's depression?
(a) Complete relief.
(b) They make her genuinely ill.
(c) They exacerbate the depression.
(d) Temporary relief.

4. How does Tolstoy describe Ivan Ilych's wife's temperament?
(a) Hard-working and content.
(b) Unreasonable and dissatisfied.
(c) Catatonic and silent.
(d) Shrewd and attentive.

5. Whom did Lukashka think he killed?
(a) A Turk.
(b) A Chechen.
(c) A Tartar.
(d) A Russian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What significance does Pashenka have to Sergius after Sergius leaves the monastery?

2. Who did Lukashka actual kill?

3. What surprises Marya after her marriage to Sergey?

4. How does Tolstoy describe Alyosha?

5. What does Eugene Irtenev become restless for when he moves to the Semenov estate?

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