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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 is Mukhorty covered with when he stumbles in a ditch?

2. Whose house do the travelers stop at?

3. What does Pozdnyshev say he was determined to do throughout his marriage?

4. When do the travelers finally decide to stop?

5. Who nearly captures Murad and his men?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Murad want to fight Shamil?

6. What is Nikita's relationship with Mukhorty?

7. How did Father Sergius come to be sent to Siberia?

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

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

10. Describe Stepan Kasatsky' personality.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze three stories and describe Tolstoy's views on illness. How does illness function in a narrative sense, in the stories? How does it function in a philosophical sense, as a counterweight to spiritual truths?

Essay Topic 2

To what extent are Tolstoy's stories allegories? How do characters and events in the stories map to values and ideas in the allegory? Explain the allegorical significance of two of Tolstoy's stories.

Essay Topic 3

How does Tolstoy treat the relationship between Russians and others--Chechen, Tartars, Cossacks, Turks? What make Russians Russian? What distinguishes them from the others, and what is the basis for hostility when there his hostility? What stance does Tolstoy take in presenting these relationships? (Sympathetic, critical, nationalistic?)

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