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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Platon makes a shirt for a French officer and presents it to him?
(a) Platon does not have the right supplies to make the shirt.
(b) Platon shows him his work and tries to keep the scraps for leg bands.
(c) Platon does not have it ready when he promised.
(d) Platon shows him his work and is pleased, but steals the leftover scraps.

2. Who stumbles out of the woods to join the Fifth Company before the battle of Krasnoe?
(a) Ramballe, the soldier who went into Bazdeev's house, and his orderly.
(b) The French corporal who had been nice to Pierre in Moscow.
(c) Tikhon, the peasant.
(d) Mlle. Bourienne.

3. Who is sent to the staff quarters to inform them of the fact that the detachment sent to fight the French division encountered the entire army?
(a) Dokhturov.
(b) Dorokhov.
(c) Konovnitsyn.
(d) Bolkhovitinov.

4. How is Pierre feeling the first few days he is in Moscow before the French arrive?
(a) He is worried about the preservation of his servants.
(b) He admires Napoleon a great deal and wants to see what the great man will do.
(c) He is curious and wants to see what will happen.
(d) He is agitated and excited almost to the point of insanity.

5. How does the old Prince Bolkonski react to Marya Dmitrievna's visit?
(a) He is out discussing political reform at the time.
(b) He is unexpectedly very pleasant, but tells her he will not change his mind about Andrew's wedding.
(c) He loudly refuses to see her.
(d) He shouts at her.

6. Who assists Anatole in his abduction of Natasha?
(a) Helene.
(b) No one.
(c) Dolokhov and Helene.
(d) Dolokhov.

7. What is wrong with the prisoner, Sokolov, who is terrified when the French start to march them all out of Moscow?
(a) He is badly wounded and knows he won't survive the march.
(b) He has fever, is dying, and knows he won't survive the march.
(c) He has dysentery and is afraid of being left alone in Moscow.
(d) He is terrified of the French as their demeanor changes when they are given orders to leave.

8. What happens to Mary right after her father dies?
(a) The peasants on the land riot and keep her and Mlle. Bourienne confined to the house.
(b) Mlle. Bourienne persuades Mary to stay at Bogucharovo, but the peasants do not want them there.
(c) The peasants on the land whom Andrew has freed refuse to let her leave for Moscow.
(d) The French enter the home and prevent her from leaving.

9. Where do the wounded soldiers go when everyone is leaving Moscow before the French arrive?
(a) They ask to rest in the yards of the people leaving Moscow.
(b) They are all leaving Moscow as quickly as they can.
(c) Most go out of the city but a few go into the Rostovs' yard.
(d) They go to a hospital.

10. Who does Andrew meet outside of Kutuzov's quarters after the French have taken Smolensk?
(a) Anatole.
(b) Denisov.
(c) Boris.
(d) Berg.

11. What brings about the change in Andrew in Yaroslavl?
(a) He has gangrene and it weakens him so much that he cannot fight it any longer.
(b) He dreams of trying to close a door on death and fails. He no longer fears death.
(c) His wound is not improving and infection has set in. He is frequently delirious.
(d) He gives up on the unpleasant struggle to live as his life has been so painful.

12. What happens when Count Orlov-Denisov and his Cossacks try to engage the French?
(a) They fail to surprise the French as the informer is an impostor who has led them into a trap.
(b) They are successful at engaging the French but once the Cossacks take prisoners and collect valuable booty, they won't continue the fight.
(c) They arrive where the French are supposed to be but the entire army has joined them and the count looses most of his Cossacks.
(d) They engage the French and smash up the division separated from the rest of the French army.

13. What has caused Helene's illness?
(a) She has contracted an illness from her reckless behavior with men.
(b) The "inconvenience" of having married two men.
(c) She has taken too much of a certain drug.
(d) She has angina pectoris.

14. How is the death of Bagration received in St. Petersburg?
(a) As he is among three well-known and liked men who die in the same battle, he is mourned equally with them.
(b) No one really is terribly upset as he had made himself terribly unpopular for expressing his frank opinion of Barclay de Tolly.
(c) Everyone is deeply grieved, as he has done so much for the war effort and all his troops loved him.
(d) Not much is said because everyone is sad about the death of Kutaysov.

15. What does Napoleon say to Balashev after dinner about Alexander?
(a) He says he doesn't understand why Alexander has surrounded himself with Napoleon's personal enemies.
(b) He notes that he is sitting in the same room Alexander had been in four days before as if to indicate his (Napoleon's) superiority.
(c) He says that he will drive all of his enemies out and that they can go to Russia.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tolstoy's metaphor of the two fencers about?

2. What happens when Dolokhov goes to spy in the French camp near the village?

3. What does Kutuzov ask Andrew to do after they speak of the old prince's death?

4. Who does Nicholas meet with his squadron when seeking shelter at an inn from the rain?

5. Who does Alpatych meet when he goes to Smolensk?

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