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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What rekindled Eugene Irtenev's love for his wife?
(a) A miscarriage.
(b) He lost his health.
(c) The birth of a daughter.
(d) He inherited his father's estate.

4. Who are the Grebensk Cossacks descended from?
(a) Original Russian migrants.
(b) Katherine the Great.
(c) Tartars.
(d) Alexander the Great.

5. Who is Dmitri Olenin?
(a) A military cadet.
(b) A shop keeper.
(c) A blacksmith.
(d) A bureaucrat.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tolstoy describe conjugal relations with Eugene Irtenev and his wife?

2. How does Tolstoy describe Dmitri's thoughts about love?

3. What did Ivan Ilych do when he took his second position?

4. Where does Eugene Irtenev live?

5. What does Marya find after she gives birth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Eugene Irtenev's relationship with Stepanida?

2. How does Tolstoy describe Eugene Irtenev's marriage with Liza Annenskaya?

3. What kinds of problems does Ivan Ilych have with Praskovya Federovna, his wife?

4. How has Marya's attitude about marriage changed by the end of the story?

5. Who is Eugene Irtenev and where does he live at the beginning of the story?

6. What torments Eugene Irtenev, and how does he plan to end his suffering?

7. What is Marya Alexandrovna's situation at the beginning of "Family Happiness"?

8. What is the relationship between the Grebensk Cossacks and the Muslim Tartars?

9. How does Praskovya Federovna's bad temper affect Ivan Ilych?

10. What does Ivan Ilych learn on his deathbed?

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