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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 were Pozdnyshev and his wife like in private together?

2. What does Murad ultimately plan to do?

3. How does Nikita treat Mukhorty?

4. Where does Pozdnyshev tell the story of killing his wife?

5. Who was Countess Korotkova?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What finally halts the travelers?

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

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

8. Describe Pozdnyshev's relation with his children.

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

10. What is Nikita's relationship with Mukhorty?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the essential "Russianness" in Tolstoy's stories? Describe it in three of his short stories. Does Tolstoy show it by contrast with other cultures, or by description, or some other means?

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

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

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