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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tolstoy say Marya and Sergey each believe about the other?
(a) That they are independent.
(b) That they are perfect.
(c) That they each depend on the other.
(d) That they are flawed.

2. How does Tolstoy say Cossack men view their wives?
(a) As equals.
(b) As warriors.
(c) As goddesses.
(d) As beasts of burden.

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

4. Who is Vanyusha?
(a) Dmitri's brother.
(b) Dmitri's servant.
(c) Dmitri's father.
(d) Dmitri's commanding officer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What political stance do the Muslim Tartars typically take?

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

3. Who did Lukashka actual kill?

4. What does Dmitri encounter in the Caucasus?

5. Who is Sergey Mikhaylych?

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