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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Semenov estate?
(a) The estate where Eugene Irtenev's wife lives.
(b) The estate where Eugene Irtenev is a doctor.
(c) Eugene Irtenev's family's estate.
(d) The estate where Eugene Irtenev is a lawyer.

2. What does Dmitri encounter in the Caucasus?
(a) Coarse locals.
(b) Dull routine at a military outpost.
(c) A complex culture.
(d) Bloody warfare.

3. How does Tolstoy describe the force that overcomes Eugene Irtenev's reticence about meeting a married woman?
(a) Red-blooded need for sex.
(b) The shameful decision.
(c) The dehumanizing desire.
(d) Corrupt desire.

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

5. What desire did Pozdnyshev's wife have, which doctors frustrated?
(a) To take care of Pozdnyshev.
(b) To nurse her child.
(c) To bear children.
(d) To take a lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ivan Ilych's relationship with his wife change when he begins to work at the Court of Justice?

2. What was Pozdnyshev's justification for killing his wife?

3. What topics does Sergey capture Marya's curiosity about?

4. What does Sergey tease Marya about?

5. How does Tolstoy say Cossack men view their wives?

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