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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do the travelers finally decide to stop?

2. How does Nikita treat Mukhorty?

3. Where does the road take them after the travelers return to the road?

4. What doest Stepan Kasatsky tell Countess Korotkova?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Father Sergius ask to be reassigned to a hermitage?

2. What causes Vasili Andreevich to set off for Goryachkin?

3. Describe Pozdnyshev's relation with his children.

4. What is the setting for "Kreutzer Sonata"?

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

6. What is Nikita's relationship with Mukhorty?

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

8. Describe Stepan Kasatsky's relationship with Countess Korotkova.

9. What are some possible morals for "Master and Man"?

10. Why did Hadji Murad set out for Russia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a character sketch of Tolstoy himself, based on his writing. What kinds of information do his themes provide for you?

Essay Topic 2

Based on evidence from three stories of your choice, describe Tolstoy's view of religion and spirituality. What kind of God does Tolstoy invoke in his stories? What religion informs this divinity?

Essay Topic 3

What is the state of civilization in the Russia of these stories? Are they modern, agricultural, primitive? What kinds of conflicts are taking place over the state of culture or progress? How do those conflicts reveal 'Russian culture'?

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