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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Stepan Kasatsky's motives for whatever he undertakes?
(a) To undermine authority.
(b) To win recognition.
(c) To create a disturbance.
(d) To escape from reality.

2. What does Murad ultimately plan to do?
(a) Attack Shamil's stronghold and eliminate him.
(b) Establish Russian rule over Chechnya.
(c) Repatriate in Russia.
(d) Make money and get famous.

3. How does Pozdnyshev see his marriage after a few weeks?
(a) As a transcendent pleasure.
(b) As a sweet kind of teamwork.
(c) As a heavy burden.
(d) As a justification for misery.

4. How does Pozdnyshev view his children?
(a) As a torment.
(b) As consolation for his unhappy marriage.
(c) As a great burden.
(d) As angels.

5. Who gives the travelers directions?
(a) A fellow traveler.
(b) A servant.
(c) A landowner in Goryachkin.
(d) An innkeeper in Grishkino.

6. Who is Nikita?
(a) Vasili's horse.
(b) Vasili's priest.
(c) Vasili's servant.
(d) Vasili's neighbor.

7. What does Vasili decide to do when they have lost the road?
(a) Cast about in circles for the road.
(b) Camp where they are.
(c) Continue through potato fields.
(d) Backtrack.

8. Who tries to convince the travelers to rest?
(a) Nikita's wife.
(b) As fellow traveler.
(c) A landowner.
(d) An innkeeper.

9. What desire did Pozdnyshev's wife have, which doctors frustrated?
(a) To take a lover.
(b) To bear children.
(c) To take care of Pozdnyshev.
(d) To nurse her child.

10. Who is Trukhachevsky?
(a) A young neighbor.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A semi-professional musician.
(d) A soldier.

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

12. How long after their wedding was Pozdnyshev's wife depressed?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Three days.
(c) Three months.
(d) Three years.

13. What were Pozdnyshev and his wife like in private together?
(a) Passionate.
(b) Tongue-tied.
(c) Resentful.
(d) Warmly affectionate.

14. Where did Vasili borrow money from in the beginning of 'Master and Man'?
(a) His neighbor.
(b) His servant.
(c) The church till.
(d) His parents.

15. Who was Countess Korotkova?
(a) Stepan Kasatsky's aunt.
(b) Stepan Kasatsky's mother's friend.
(c) A general's wife.
(d) The emperor's concubine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Vasili and Nikita and Mukhorty traveling to?

2. What does Murad hope for, from the person he is trying to reach?

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

4. How does Tolstoy describe Countess Korotkova?

5. How does Pozdnyshev's wife try to escape from her unhappiness?

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