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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after their wedding was Pozdnyshev's wife depressed?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Three years.
(c) Three days.
(d) Three months.

2. What effect do visits to Moscow and Petersburg have on Marya's depression?
(a) Complete relief.
(b) Temporary relief.
(c) They make her genuinely ill.
(d) They exacerbate the depression.

3. What does Marya say she got, in her marriage to Sergey?
(a) A life of ease.
(b) A life of struggle.
(c) A life of art.
(d) A life of troubles.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Eugene Irtenev confide his lustful thoughts about Stepanida?

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

3. Where does Pozdnyshev tell the story of killing his wife?

4. Where did Ivan Ilych get appointed to the Court of Justice?

5. What does Marya find after she gives birth?

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