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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 did Ivan Ilych find in place of death?
(a) Light.
(b) God.
(c) Language.
(d) Fury.

2. What aspect of Sergey's personality does Marya respond to?
(a) His recklessness with money.
(b) His brooding moods.
(c) His outgoing personality.
(d) His impassive good manners.

3. What does Maryanka do when Dmitri returns to Russia?
(a) She comes with him.
(b) She watches him from a prominent place where he can see her.
(c) She does not look at him.
(d) She cries openly.

4. What convinces Ivan Ilych that death is getting close?
(a) He falls out of bed.
(b) He falls on the way to the toilet.
(c) His teeth fall out.
(d) He ceases to sleep.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in Novomlinsk?

2. Who lives beyond the Muslim Tartars?

3. Where does Eugene Irtenev live?

4. How does Ivan Ilych handle his illness?

5. When does the relationship between Marya and Sergey turn romantic?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dmitri Olenin think he will find in the Caucasus?

2. What intrudes to make Marya unhappy?

3. What does Ivan Ilych learn on his deathbed?

4. What causes Sergey and Marya's relationship to blossom?

5. What does Dmitri discover about the Chechens?

6. Which ending of "The Devil" seems to be preferable?

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

8. What happens in the first ambush Lukashka sets up?

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

10. What role do Liza Annenskaya's pregnancies play in "The Devil"?

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