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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dmitri dream about on his way to the Caucasus?
(a) Escape from prison.
(b) A life of ease.
(c) Freedom from persecution.
(d) A heroic future.

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

3. What are Ivan Ilych's symptoms of the illness that kills him?
(a) Nausea.
(b) Hearing loss.
(c) A strange taste in his mouth.
(d) Pain in his joints and neck.

4. What is in Novomlinsk?
(a) The center of the Grebensk Cossack settlement.
(b) The Russian military outpost.
(c) The Turkish trading post.
(d) Muslim Tartars.

5. Who does Marya live with at the beginning of "Family Happiness"?
(a) Her sister and a family friend.
(b) Her children.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dmitri's relation with Maryanka?

2. How does Ivan Ilych's relationship with his wife change when he begins to work at the Court of Justice?

3. When does the relationship between Marya and Sergey turn romantic?

4. How does Ivan Ilych begin his career?

5. How does Tolstoy say Ivan Ilych's wife demonstrated mental problems?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ivan Ilych change when he begins to make money?

2. What happens in the first ambush Lukashka sets up?

3. What role do Liza Annenskaya's pregnancies play in "The Devil"?

4. When do Ivan Ilych and Praskovya Federovna finally arrive at a truce?

5. What intrudes to make Marya unhappy?

6. How does Tolstoy describe Eugene Irtenev's marriage with Liza Annenskaya?

7. How does Praskovya Federovna's bad temper affect Ivan Ilych?

8. What causes Sergey and Marya's relationship to blossom?

9. What is Marya Alexandrovna's situation at the beginning of "Family Happiness"?

10. What does Ivan Ilych learn on his deathbed?

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