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

2. What causes Father Sergius to leave the monastery?
(a) A woman who tempts him.
(b) A woman who refuses him.
(c) A woman who seduces him.
(d) A woman who seduced his spiritual leader.

3. What power does Father Sergius discover he has?
(a) Prophesying.
(b) Healing.
(c) Investing.
(d) Arguing law cases.

4. Why has Shamil ordered Murad's family to be arrested?
(a) A conflict between Shamil and Murad.
(b) Murad had murdered a man.
(c) Murad had spoken against the Chechen cause.
(d) Shamil was trying to consolidate his power.

5. How does Tolstoy say Stepan Kasatsky feels about the Emperor?
(a) Devoted.
(b) Competitive.
(c) Resentful.
(d) Adoring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What inspired the jealousy rage in Pozdnyshev?

2. What does Tolstoy say Pozdnyshev is oblivious to in his marriage?

3. Who was Countess Korotkova?

4. Who found Nikita after the snow storm?

5. Who gives the travelers directions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the setting for "Kreutzer Sonata"?

2. How did Father Sergius come to be sent to Siberia?

3. What is the event that precipitates Pozdnyshev's murder of his wife?

4. What is Nikita's relationship with Mukhorty?

5. What finally halts the travelers?

6. What are some possible morals for "Master and Man"?

7. What happens to Vasili and Nikita after they set out from Grishkino?

8. What did the Tsar decide with regard to Murad?

9. Describe Pozdnyshev's marriage.

10. Why does Father Sergius ask to be reassigned to a hermitage?

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