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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Natasha react when Anatole tells her he is in love with her?
(a) She is overcome with delight and says nothing except that she is already engaged.
(b) She is uncomfortable at his lack of propriety, and questions how he could be in love with someone he's only just met the day before.
(c) She tells him not to say that; she is engaged and in love with another man.
(d) She is flattered and presses his hand.

2. 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) Konovnitsyn.
(c) Dorokhov.
(d) Bolkhovitinov.

3. Why does Boris speed up his courting of Julie Karagina?
(a) His leave is ending and he is having trouble finding time to visit with her as he has so much to do.
(b) He is madly in love with her and fears if he doesn't propose quickly, he will lose the opportunity.
(c) He is madly in love with her and sees with each visit that she is increasingly receptive to his attentions.
(d) His mother, Anna Mikhaylovna, tells him that Prince Vasili is trying to arrange a marriage between Julie and Anatole.

4. Who is Count Rostopchin?
(a) A busybody who throws his weight around.
(b) A court official appointed by Alexander to get the aristocracy out of Moscow.
(c) The governor of Moscow.
(d) A general under Kutuzov sent to keep order in Moscow as the French advance.

5. Pierre is shown a section of Revelations by one of his fellow Masons which corresponds with Napoleon. What does he find in reading it?
(a) Napoleon's name in Russian and French adds up to 666.
(b) He sees that Napoleon is the beast and decides that he must spread this word to everyone in Russia.
(c) Knowing that Napoleon's name adds up to 666, he unsuccessfully tries to use the same calculations with his name.
(d) His name in French and Napoleon's both add up to 666.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Pierre do when he goes out into the streets of Moscow to find Napoleon?

3. Who is the first to see the French at Ostrovna?

4. What sort of man is Rostopchin?

5. What happens to Mary when she is leaving Bogucharovo for Moscow?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Helene resolve her dilemma over which of her two suitors she should marry?

2. What is Tolstoy's view of Count Rostopchin's actions in Moscow immediately preceding the arrival of the French?

3. How does Pierre comfort Natasha after she tries to kill herself and how does she regard his words?

4. Why does Andrew request a post in Turkey?

5. Berg goes to the Rostov's as they are packing up to leave Moscow. Why does he go there?

6. Why do the French end up abandoning a city that was their emperor's goal in invading Russia?

7. How does Sonya react to Natasha when she finds Anatole's letter to her?

8. What happens to Pierre after he is taken prisoner by the French after meeting with Davout?

9. What change does Pierre notice in the French soldiers guarding him and other prisoners when they are leaving Moscow and how does he regard it?

10. Why is Mary so unhappy when the Bolkonskis go to Moscow?

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