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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Marya yearn for through the winter?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Paris.
(c) Petersburg.
(d) Greece.

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

4. When does the relationship between Marya and Sergey turn romantic?
(a) Over the summer.
(b) In May.
(c) In the winter.
(d) In August.

5. Whom did Lukashka think he killed?
(a) A Russian.
(b) A Turk.
(c) A Tartar.
(d) A Chechen.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Tolstoy describe Dmitri's thoughts about love?

4. What does Dmitri encounter in the Caucasus?

5. Who are the Grebensk Cossacks descended from?

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