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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Tolstoy describe Marya and Sergey's feelings for each other?
(a) Indifferent to each other.
(b) Respectful and moderately affectionate.
(c) Resentful.
(d) Head over heels in love.

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

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

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

5. How does Ivan Ilych begin his career?
(a) As a provincial magistrate.
(b) As a clerk.
(c) As an intern.
(d) As a foot soldier.

6. How old is Marya Alexandrovna?
(a) 26.
(b) 21.
(c) 14.
(d) 17.

7. What are Ivan Ilych's symptoms of the illness that kills him?
(a) A strange taste in his mouth.
(b) Hearing loss.
(c) Pain in his joints and neck.
(d) Nausea.

8. What does Sergey tease Marya about?
(a) Her dark sense of humor.
(b) Her ignorance of French literature.
(c) Her housekeeping.
(d) Her coquettish nature.

9. What effect does the Russian winter have on Marya?
(a) It saps her.
(b) It has no affect on her.
(c) It rejuvenates her.
(d) It incenses her.

10. What political stance do the Muslim Tartars typically take?
(a) Anti-Russian.
(b) Pro-Turkish.
(c) Pro-Russian.
(d) Pro-independence.

11. What does Ivan Ilych develop a passion for?
(a) Horse-racing.
(b) Courtesans.
(c) Bridge.
(d) Roulette.

12. Where does Eugene Irtenev live?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Petersburg.
(c) The Caucasus.
(d) The country.

13. Who lives on the other side of the Terek River?
(a) Russians.
(b) Grebensk Cossacks.
(c) Turks.
(d) Muslim Tartars.

14. Who is Eugene Irtenev?
(a) A printer.
(b) A minister.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A doctor.

15. What does Marya say she got, in her marriage to Sergey?
(a) A life of ease.
(b) A life of art.
(c) A life of troubles.
(d) A life of struggle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises Marya after her marriage to Sergey?

2. What convinces Ivan Ilych that death is getting close?

3. What is the Semenov estate?

4. Why did Liza Annenskaya hire Stepanida?

5. How does Tolstoy say Ivan Ilych's mood changed during his illness?

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