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

2. Who is Praskovya Federovna?
(a) Ivan Ilych's mother.
(b) Ivan Ilych's wife.
(c) Ivan Ilych's sister.
(d) Ivan Ilych's lover.

3. What causes Father Sergius to leave the monastery?
(a) A woman who seduced his spiritual leader.
(b) A woman who seduces him.
(c) A woman who refuses him.
(d) A woman who tempts him.

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

5. What did Ivan Ilych find in place of death?
(a) God.
(b) Light.
(c) Language.
(d) Fury.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Stepan Kasatsky's relation with the court of Emperor Nicholas I?

3. What effect do visits to Moscow and Petersburg have on Marya's depression?

4. Where did Vasili borrow money from in the beginning of 'Master and Man'?

5. What makes Murad suspicious when he reaches his destination?

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