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

2. 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 arrive where the French are supposed to be but the entire army has joined them and the count looses most of his Cossacks.
(c) They engage the French and smash up the division separated from the rest of the French army.
(d) They are successful at engaging the French but once the Cossacks take prisoners and collect valuable booty, they won't continue the fight.

3. How does Kutuzov react to Lauriston's coming to see him to negotiate peace?
(a) He says he will be forever condemned by history if he negotiates peace with the French.
(b) He would like to negotiate to prevent further loss of life but thinks perhaps the time is not right and wants to wait until the French are in even more difficult straits.
(c) In a rare moment of fury, he tells Lauriston to get out and that he will never consider any sort of treaty with Napoleon.
(d) He wants to negotiate but he knows the Tsar will remove him from his position as commander-in-chief.

4. 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) Bolkhovitinov.
(b) Dorokhov.
(c) Konovnitsyn.
(d) Dokhturov.

5. What happens when Natasha goes to the Bolkonski's to visit Mary and the old prince?
(a) Mlle Bourienne greets her and says regretfully that the prince is indisposed and Mary is not at home.
(b) Mary immediately dislikes her, while the prince refuses to see her.
(c) Mary meets her and is delighted with how fashionable and charming she is.
(d) Mlle Bourienne greets her but is rude to her knowing that the old prince does not favor the engagement. Mary is very welcoming.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Platon makes a shirt for a French officer and presents it to him?

2. According Tolstoy, what errors did Napoleon make while he was in Moscow?

3. What torments Natasha when she thinks about Andrew after his death?

4. Who does Maria Dmitrievna warn Natasha against?

5. After Andrew leaves to join the army a second time, what does the old Prince Bolkonski say to Mary before showing her Andrew's second letter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens with Pierre after the reading of the Tsar's letter asking for money, serfs and equipment?

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

4. How do Mary and Natasha overcome their grief?

5. What happens between the Tsar and Kutuzov at Vilna after the last battle the Russians have with the French?

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

7. What has happened to Pierre to change Natasha's view about him?

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

9. How does Princess Mary react to Nicholas when he enters Andrew's home at Bogucharovo and how does he react to her?

10. Where does Pierre go after Borodino and how has he reacted to the battle?

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