Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What convinces Ivan Ilych that death is getting close?

2. With whom did the Grebensk Cossacks intermarry?

3. What does Ivan Ilych do after his first child is born?

4. What does Maryanka do when Dmitri returns to Russia?

5. How does Tolstoy say Liza Annenskaya acts on her jealousy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dmitri Olenin think he will find in the Caucasus?

2. What does Ivan Ilych learn on his deathbed?

3. What is Eugene Irtenev's relationship with Stepanida?

4. What intrudes to make Marya unhappy?

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

6. What does Dmitri discover about the Chechens?

7. What happens to end the truce between Ivan Ilych and Praskovya Federovna?

8. How does Dmitri go about confessing his love to Maryanka?

9. Which ending of "The Devil" seems to be preferable?

10. What does Marya think about her marriage at first?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is Tolstoy's literary universe a chaotic one, as people say modern life is chaotic or random--or is it organized around some law or consistency? What law Tolstoy's fictional world organized around?

Essay Topic 2

Write a character sketch of Tolstoy himself, based on his writing. What kinds of information do his themes provide for you?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Tolstoy's treatment of the relationship between masters and servants in three stories in "Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy". How are the roles defined? How do characters vary from them?

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