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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is Stepan Kasatsky?
(a) A privileged young man.
(b) A soldier.
(c) A talented lawyer.
(d) A poor inn keeper.
2. When do the travelers finally decide to stop?
(a) When they lose their way again.
(b) When they get stuck in a ravine.
(c) When the sled breaks.
(d) When Mukhorty is injured.
3. Where are Vasili and Nikita and Mukhorty traveling to?
(a) The Semenov estate.
(b) Petersburg.
(c) Goryachkin.
(d) Moscow.
4. What was Pozdnyshev's justification for killing his wife?
(a) A jealous rage.
(b) Desire for her money.
(c) She was ill and suffering.
(d) He caught her cheating on him.
5. Who is Murad hoping to reach at his destination?
(a) Emperor Nicholas I.
(b) Marya Dmitrievna.
(c) Prince Vorontsov.
(d) Shamil's general.
6. What is Mukhorty covered with when he stumbles in a ditch?
(a) Hoar frost.
(b) Blankets.
(c) Ice.
(d) Snow.
7. Who gives the travelers directions?
(a) An innkeeper in Grishkino.
(b) A servant.
(c) A fellow traveler.
(d) A landowner in Goryachkin.
8. What is it called when Vasili dies protecting Nikita?
(a) Justice.
(b) Dramatic irony.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Irony.
9. Who does Pozdnyshev tell his story to?
(a) His seat-mate.
(b) His cell-mate.
(c) Passers-by.
(d) A judge and jury.
10. Who is Hadji Murad?
(a) A Chechen fighter.
(b) A Russian soldier.
(c) A Turkish fighter.
(d) A Russian prince.
11. How does Pozdnyshev's wife try to escape from her unhappiness?
(a) By singing.
(b) By having affairs.
(c) By playing piano.
(d) By gossiping.
12. Who is Mukhorty?
(a) Vasili's neighbor.
(b) Vasili's servant.
(c) Vasili's horse.
(d) Vasili's priest.
13. What role does Pozdnyshev's wife balk at?
(a) Seductress.
(b) Governess.
(c) Nurturer.
(d) Nursemaid.
14. What doest Stepan Kasatsky tell Countess Korotkova?
(a) That she made him a better person.
(b) That he was terribly devoted.
(c) That his love for her scared him.
(d) That he would kill her if he ever found out she betrayed him.
15. How does Pozdnyshev describe his union with his wife?
(a) A spiritual union.
(b) A passionate union.
(c) A practical, economic union.
(d) A carnal union.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was Countess Korotkova?
2. Why is it urgent for Vasili and Nikita and Mukhorty to reach their destination in the snow storm?
3. What does Murad ultimately plan to do?
4. How does Pozdnyshev see his marriage after a few weeks?
5. Why did Pozdnyshev's wife say she was depressed?
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