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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. Who is Mukhorty?

2. How does Stepan Kasatsky respond when Countess Korotkova tells him about her other lover?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Tolstoy mean by ending the story with Marya Dmitrievna screaming 'you are all cutthroats'?

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

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

6. Describe Pozdnyshev's relation with his children.

7. What effect does Trukhachevsky's arrival have on Pozdnyshev's marriage?

8. What finally halts the travelers?

9. Why does Murad want to fight Shamil?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Tolstoy see marriage? Analyze marriages in three stories, and describe the uses, benefits and disadvantages of marriage in Tolstoy's writing.

Essay Topic 2

Describe Tolstoy's treatment of the relationship between masters and servants in three stories in "Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy". How are the roles defined? How do characters vary from them?

Essay Topic 3

What is Tolstoy's relation with his characters and the events he describes? Is he a sympathetic narrator, or does he distance himself from his characters' thoughts and actions?

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