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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What topics does Sergey capture Marya's curiosity about?
(a) Planting crops.
(b) International politics.
(c) The plight of workers.
(d) New technology.

2. How does Ivan Ilych feel about his life as he reviews it from his deathbed?
(a) He decides he would not do anything differently.
(b) He is revolted.
(c) He is grateful for all his opportunities.
(d) He forgives himself.

3. What political stance do the Muslim Tartars typically take?
(a) Pro-Turkish.
(b) Pro-independence.
(c) Anti-Russian.
(d) Pro-Russian.

4. What is Maryanka's response when Dmitri asks her whether they can marry?
(a) She agrees.
(b) She pleads with him to let her marry Lukashka.
(c) She refuses him.
(d) She tells him he is foolish.

5. How would you describe the nature Dmitri expects to find in the Caucasus?
(a) Fertile.
(b) Exhausted.
(c) Domesticated.
(d) Sublime.

6. What did Ivan Ilych find in place of death?
(a) God.
(b) Language.
(c) Light.
(d) Fury.

7. When does the relationship between Marya and Sergey turn romantic?
(a) In May.
(b) In the winter.
(c) In August.
(d) Over the summer.

8. When did Dmitri believe a barrier was broken between himself and Maryanka?
(a) When she tells him of her engagement to Lukashka.
(b) At Beletsky's party.
(c) When he moves in with her family.
(d) When he sees her baking bread.

9. Who is Praskovya Federovna?
(a) Ivan Ilych's mother.
(b) Ivan Ilych's lover.
(c) Ivan Ilych's wife.
(d) Ivan Ilych's sister.

10. Who does Eugene Irtenev's mother want him to marry?
(a) Liza Annenskaya.
(b) Stepanida.
(c) Someone with money.
(d) Someone with a title.

11. Does Stepanida have Eugene Irtenev's child?
(a) He is not sure.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) She tells him it is his, but he finds out it is not.

12. What does Tolstoy say Marya and Sergey each believe about the other?
(a) That they are perfect.
(b) That they are independent.
(c) That they each depend on the other.
(d) That they are flawed.

13. How does Ivan Ilych's relationship with his wife change when he begins to work at the Court of Justice?
(a) They resume hostilities.
(b) They declare a truce.
(c) They separate.
(d) They fall out of love.

14. How does Tolstoy say Ivan Ilych's wife demonstrated mental problems?
(a) Breakdowns.
(b) Jealous rages.
(c) Alcoholism.
(d) Depressions.

15. What is the Semenov estate?
(a) The estate where Eugene Irtenev's wife lives.
(b) Eugene Irtenev's family's estate.
(c) The estate where Eugene Irtenev is a lawyer.
(d) The estate where Eugene Irtenev is a doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Katya?

2. Why does Dmitri return home quickly after hunting?

3. What causes Sergey to say that he and Marya must return to the country?

4. Who introduces Eugene Irtenev to Stepanida?

5. What is Dmitri's relation with Maryanka?

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