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

2. What is Father Sergius's reason for wanting to be transferred out of the city?
(a) Desire for money.
(b) Desire for power.
(c) Desire for easy city ways.
(d) Lust for women.

3. What role does Pozdnyshev's wife balk at?
(a) Nurturer.
(b) Nursemaid.
(c) Governess.
(d) Seductress.

4. What town do the Russians ultimately destroy?
(a) Shamil's hometown.
(b) All the Chechen border towns.
(c) Murad's hometown.
(d) Shamil's stronghold.

5. What power does Father Sergius discover he has?
(a) Arguing law cases.
(b) Prophesying.
(c) Investing.
(d) Healing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who nearly captures Murad and his men?

2. What significance does Pashenka have to Sergius after Sergius leaves the monastery?

3. Who is Trukhachevsky?

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

5. How does Marya Dmitrievna denounce Hadji Aga and his men?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens the first time Nikita and Vasili get off the road?

2. What does Hadji Murad hope to find when he reaches Russia?

3. What did the Tsar decide with regard to Murad?

4. What finally halts the travelers?

5. What gift did Father Sergius discover he had, and what did it do for him?

6. What is the event that precipitates Pozdnyshev's murder of his wife?

7. Describe Stepan Kasatsky' personality.

8. What does Murad ask Prince Vorontsov for after he surrenders?

9. Why did Hadji Murad set out for Russia?

10. What does Pozdnyshev realize as soon as he kills his wife?

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