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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 does Marya see herself in relation to Sergey, once she begins to be depressed?
(a) As a goddess.
(b) As a nuisance.
(c) As a mother.
(d) As an afterthought.

2. How does Tolstoy describe conjugal relations with Eugene Irtenev and his wife?
(a) Painful.
(b) Dutiful.
(c) Passionate.
(d) Humiliating.

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

4. How does Pozdnyshev describe his marriage as he sees it in post-coital reflection?
(a) As to cold souls begrudging each other their pleasure.
(b) As two egoists foreign to each other.
(c) As two terrified children trying to save each other.
(d) As two animals desperate to consume each other.

5. Who is Eugene Irtenev?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A minister.
(c) A printer.
(d) A lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tolstoy say Marya and Sergey each believe about the other?

2. How does Ivan Ilych feel about his life as he reviews it from his deathbed?

3. What happens when Ivan Ilych becomes ill?

4. Who introduces Eugene Irtenev to Stepanida?

5. What do Marya's boredom and depression turn into?

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