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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Tolstoy say Liza Annenskaya acts on her jealousy?
(a) She controls it.
(b) She has affairs of her own.
(c) She flies into rages.
(d) She becomes depressed.

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

3. What is Maryanka's response when Dmitri asks her whether they can marry?
(a) She pleads with him to let her marry Lukashka.
(b) She agrees.
(c) She tells him he is foolish.
(d) She refuses him.

4. What does Ivan Ilych do after his first child is born?
(a) Devote himself to his wife.
(b) Consume himself with work.
(c) Begin to drink.
(d) Separate himself from the house.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ivan Ilych feel about his life as he reviews it from his deathbed?

2. Who is Dmitri Olenin?

3. What surprises Marya after her marriage to Sergey?

4. Who are the Grebensk Cossacks descended from?

5. What are Ivan Ilych's symptoms of the illness that kills him?

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