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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What rekindled Eugene Irtenev's love for his wife?
(a) He inherited his father's estate.
(b) He lost his health.
(c) The birth of a daughter.
(d) A miscarriage.

3. What surprises Marya after her marriage to Sergey?
(a) The absence of work and sacrifice.
(b) The new importance of self-sacrifice.
(c) The loss of privacy and self-possession.
(d) The continual work and sacrifice.

4. What inspired the jealousy rage in Pozdnyshev?
(a) One of Trukhachevsky's enemies told him about Trukhachevsky's affair with his wife.
(b) He read his wife's letters.
(c) Catching his wife and Trukhachevsky in the act.
(d) A business trip.

5. What does Sergey tease Marya about?
(a) Her coquettish nature.
(b) Her housekeeping.
(c) Her dark sense of humor.
(d) Her ignorance of French literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ivan Ilych handle his illness?

2. How does Marya see herself in relation to Sergey, once she begins to be depressed?

3. Why does Dmitri go to the Caucasus?

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

5. Who are the Grebensk Cossacks descended from?

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