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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Katya?
(a) A milliner.
(b) A seamstress.
(c) A governess.
(d) A shop girl.

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

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

4. What aspect of Sergey's personality does Marya respond to?
(a) His outgoing personality.
(b) His impassive good manners.
(c) His brooding moods.
(d) His recklessness with money.

5. When did Dmitri believe a barrier was broken between himself and Maryanka?
(a) When he sees her baking bread.
(b) When she tells him of her engagement to Lukashka.
(c) At Beletsky's party.
(d) When he moves in with her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Marya Alexandrovna?

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

3. How does Tolstoy describe Marya and Sergey's feelings for each other?

4. With whom did the Grebensk Cossacks intermarry?

5. What does Dmitri dream about on his way to the Caucasus?

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