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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. What does Father Sergius do when he is aware of his lust for Makovkina?

2. How does Pozdnyshev describe his union with his wife?

3. What causes Father Sergius to leave the monastery?

4. Who is Mukhorty?

5. Who was Countess Korotkova?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Pozdnyshev's relation with his children.

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

3. Why did Hadji Murad set out for Russia?

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

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

6. What happens to Vasili and Nikita after they set out from Grishkino?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

To what extent are Tolstoy's stories instructional, and what are they teaching? Describe the educational value of three of Tolstoy's stories.

Essay Topic 3

Late in life, Tolstoy abjured private possessions and advocated communes. Does the Tolstoy of the stories value worldly possessions less than other kinds of things? Where are worldly possessions in Tolstoy's value scale? Analyze three stories and describe Tolstoy's views.

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