Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dmitri's relation with Maryanka?
(a) Devotion.
(b) Animosity.
(c) Competition.
(d) Flirtation.

2. What surprises Marya after her marriage to Sergey?
(a) The continual work and sacrifice.
(b) The absence of work and sacrifice.
(c) The loss of privacy and self-possession.
(d) The new importance of self-sacrifice.

3. Who is Vanyusha?
(a) Dmitri's commanding officer.
(b) Dmitri's brother.
(c) Dmitri's father.
(d) Dmitri's servant.

4. What effect do visits to Moscow and Petersburg have on Marya's depression?
(a) They exacerbate the depression.
(b) They make her genuinely ill.
(c) Complete relief.
(d) Temporary relief.

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 comes with him.
(d) She cries openly.

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

7. How does Tolstoy describe conjugal relations with Eugene Irtenev and his wife?
(a) Dutiful.
(b) Passionate.
(c) Humiliating.
(d) Painful.

8. How does Ivan Ilych's relationship with his wife change when he begins to work at the Court of Justice?
(a) They resume hostilities.
(b) They declare a truce.
(c) They fall out of love.
(d) They separate.

9. Where does Marya yearn for through the winter?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Paris.
(c) Greece.
(d) Petersburg.

10. What does Tolstoy say Marya and Sergey each believe about the other?
(a) That they are perfect.
(b) That they are independent.
(c) That they each depend on the other.
(d) That they are flawed.

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

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

13. Why does Marya's depression return?
(a) Her brother comes to visit.
(b) Winter.
(c) Sergey leave for a trip.
(d) Her mother dies.

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

15. Does Stepanida have Eugene Irtenev's child?
(a) Yes.
(b) She tells him it is his, but he finds out it is not.
(c) He is not sure.
(d) No.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does the Russian winter have on Marya?

2. Who lives beyond the Muslim Tartars?

3. What is the significance of the Terek River?

4. Why did Liza Annenskaya hire Stepanida?

5. With whom did the Grebensk Cossacks intermarry?

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