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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tolstoy say Dmitri hopes to find in the Caucasus?
(a) Riches.
(b) Escape from his wife.
(c) The perfect woman.
(d) His daughter.

2. What causes Sergey to say that he and Marya must return to the country?
(a) His finances.
(b) Her illness.
(c) Her pregnancy.
(d) His affair with a girl in Moscow.

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

4. What causes Marya Alexandrovna's depression?
(a) Her father's drunkenness.
(b) Her husband's death.
(c) Her brother's illness.
(d) Her mother's death.

5. How does Tolstoy say Ivan Ilych's wife demonstrated mental problems?
(a) Breakdowns.
(b) Jealous rages.
(c) Alcoholism.
(d) Depressions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Eugene Irtenev live?

2. What is in Novomlinsk?

3. How does Tolstoy describe conjugal relations with Eugene Irtenev and his wife?

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

5. What does Marya say she got, in her marriage to Sergey?

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