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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Tolstoy say Pozdnyshev is oblivious to in his marriage?
(a) His wife's unhappiness.
(b) His wife's illness.
(c) His wife's affairs.
(d) His children's hate for him.

3. What role does Pozdnyshev's wife balk at?
(a) Governess.
(b) Nursemaid.
(c) Seductress.
(d) Nurturer.

4. Who lives beyond the Muslim Tartars?
(a) Lawless mountain people.
(b) Turks.
(c) Christian Cossacks.
(d) Russians.

5. What causes Sergey to declare that everything is over between himself and Marya?
(a) Her illness and depression.
(b) Her suicide attempt.
(c) A jealous rage.
(d) Her affair with a Frenchman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Marya Alexandrovna's depression?

2. What does Tolstoy say Dmitri hopes to find in the Caucasus?

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

4. How does Ivan Ilych begin his career?

5. Why does Marya's depression return?

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