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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Marya's first reaction to Sergey?
(a) Fascination.
(b) Resentment.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Repulsion.

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

3. What does Dmitri encounter in the Caucasus?
(a) A complex culture.
(b) Bloody warfare.
(c) Dull routine at a military outpost.
(d) Coarse locals.

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

5. What does Maryanka do when Dmitri returns to Russia?
(a) She watches him from a prominent place where he can see her.
(b) She comes with him.
(c) She does not look at him.
(d) She cries openly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dmitri return home quickly after hunting?

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

3. What is in Novomlinsk?

4. What is the relationship between Christian Cossacks and Muslim Tartars?

5. What does Sergey tease Marya about?

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