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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Kreutzer Sonata.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Ivan Ilych get appointed to the Court of Justice?
(a) Volgograd.
(b) Petersburg.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Kursk.

2. What causes Sergey to say that he and Marya must return to the country?
(a) Her illness.
(b) Her pregnancy.
(c) His finances.
(d) His affair with a girl in Moscow.

3. What surprises Marya after her marriage to Sergey?
(a) The loss of privacy and self-possession.
(b) The absence of work and sacrifice.
(c) The new importance of self-sacrifice.
(d) The continual work and sacrifice.

4. Who is Ivan Ilych at the beginning of "The Death of Ivan Ilych"?
(a) A law school graduate.
(b) A bureaucrat.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A soldier.

5. What does Marya say she got, in her marriage to Sergey?
(a) A life of struggle.
(b) A life of art.
(c) A life of troubles.
(d) A life of ease.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tolstoy say Liza Annenskaya acts on her jealousy?

2. What is Dmitri's relation with Maryanka?

3. What aspect of Sergey's personality does Marya respond to?

4. How does Pozdnyshev see his marriage after a few weeks?

5. What does Eugene Irtenev become restless for when he moves to the Semenov estate?

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