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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. Where do the Rostovs go after leaving Moscow?
(a) They go to an inn near Moscow.
(b) They go to Otradnoe.
(c) They must stay in a small town fourteen miles from Moscow.
(d) They go to a distant relation of the countess.

2. What does Julie Drubetskaya gossip about as everyone is preparing to leave Moscow?
(a) Pierre being ridiculous.
(b) Pierre's obvious liking for Natasha
(c) The Rostovs, namely Natasha's quick recovery.
(d) The Rostovs' difficulty in selling their estate.

3. What prevents Anatole from openly courting Natasha?
(a) Marya Dmitrievna dislikes the Kuragins and tells Natasha that she will not allow them in her home.
(b) Anatole is already married.
(c) Natasha's engagement to Prince Andrew.
(d) Count Rostov is very protective of his daughter.

4. 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 are successful at engaging the French but once the Cossacks take prisoners and collect valuable booty, they won't continue the fight.
(d) They engage the French and smash up the division separated from the rest of the French army.

5. Who does the countess first begin to talk to just before she begins to weep after Petya's death?
(a) Petya.
(b) The count.
(c) Mary.
(d) Natasha.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who pays special attention to Natasha at the opera with Maria Dmitrievna?

2. At Borodino, Andrew is with his regiment. What are they doing and what happens to them?

3. How does Napoleon regard Moscow before he and his troops enter the city?

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

5. How has Natasha changed since becoming ill?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Tolstoy say changes in the nature of war when the French move from Smolensk to Moscow?

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

6. Why does Natasha get so upset during her visit with the Bolkonskis?

7. Why does Andrew request a post in Turkey?

8. Why does Nicholas feel he cannot marry Mary?

9. What happens to Nicholas when he and his regiment attack the French at Ostróvna?

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

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