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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Alyosha the Pot.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What topics does Sergey capture Marya's curiosity about?
(a) International politics.
(b) The plight of workers.
(c) New technology.
(d) Planting crops.

2. What is Father Sergius's reason for wanting to be transferred out of the city?
(a) Desire for money.
(b) Desire for easy city ways.
(c) Desire for power.
(d) Lust for women.

3. Where did Ivan Ilych get appointed to the Court of Justice?
(a) Volgograd.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Kursk.
(d) Petersburg.

4. How does Pozdnyshev describe his marriage as he sees it in post-coital reflection?
(a) As to cold souls begrudging each other their pleasure.
(b) As two egoists foreign to each other.
(c) As two animals desperate to consume each other.
(d) As two terrified children trying to save each other.

5. Where do Eugene Irtenev and Stepanida meet?
(a) In an inn.
(b) In her house.
(c) In the grasses.
(d) In his apartments.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Murad die?

2. What does Murad ask for when he has reached his destination?

3. How does Pozdnyshev describe his union with his wife?

4. What desire did Pozdnyshev's wife have, which doctors frustrated?

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

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