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Leo Tolstoy

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1. With a discussion of what topic does Anna Pavlovna Scherer open the novel?

(A) Farming

(B) Money

(D) Fashion

2. What is Vasili Kuragin interested in obtaining for his son Anatole?

(A) An officer's position

(B) A country estate

(D) A law practice

3. Who is Helene's father?

(A) Count Rostov

(B) Vasili Kuragin

(D) General Kutuzov

4. In what century is War and Peace set?

(A) The seventeenth

(B) The eighteenth

(D) The twentieth

5. What is Pierre's most noticeable physical feature?

(A) His large size

(B) His lameness

(D) His thinness

6. Who is the owner of the estate called Bald Hills?

(A) Pierre Bezukhov

(B) Count Rostov

(D) Prince Bolkonski

7. Who is Mademoiselle Bourienne?

(A) Natasha's playmate

(B) Mary's companion

(D) Helene's rival

8. Who is severely wounded at the Battle of Austerlitz?

(A) Nicholas

(B) Andrew

(D) Kutuzov

9. Who is Pierre's first wife?

(A) Natasha

(B) Lise

(D) Helene

10. With which man is it rumored Pierre's wife is having an affair?

(A) Denisov

(B) Andrew

(D) Dolokhov

11. What topic does the mysterious stranger Pierre encounters at the Torzhok station discuss?

(A) Spirituality

(B) Helene's misdeeds

(D) The devil

12. For what misdeed is Nicholas's friend Denisov in danger of being court-martialed?

(A) Seizing food supplies

(B) Insulting an officer's wife

(D) Leaving the front without permission

13. How does Nicholas rescue Mary?

(A) He carries her out of her burning house

(B) He picks her up when she is lost in a snowstorm

(D) He forces her out of the typhus clinic where she has been taken

14. What does Pierre madly and briefly imagine his mission in life to be?

(A) To denounce Helene

(B) To assassinate Napoleon

(D) To lead the Russian troops to victory

15. How does Helene attempt to marry another man while still wedded to Pierre?

(A) By bribing government officials

(B) By getting the tsar to denounce Pierre

(D) By converting to Catholicism

16. Why do the Rostovs unload the carts containing their possessions during the evacuation of Moscow?

(A) To make room in their carts for wounded Russian soldiers

(B) Because the authorities forbid leaving the city

(D) To stay in Moscow and bravely face the French troops

17. According to the narrator of War and Peace, which of the following best describes the Battle of Borodino?

(A) It is a French victory

(B) It prompts the signing of an armistice

(D) It is the site of Petya's death

18. In what public place does Natasha become interested in Anatole?

(A) The opera

(B) A church service

(D) A restaurant

19. For what does the dying Count Rostov beg forgiveness?

(A) Keeping a mistress

(B) Dissipating his family's inheritance

(D) Being cruel to Sonya

20. Who is Mary's brother?

(A) Pierre

(B) Denisov

(D) Andrew

21. What good deed ends up getting Pierre captured by the French?

(A) Saving a lieutenant from bandits

(B) Saving a child from a burning house

(D) Giving his bread to a French soldier

22. What causes Petya's death?

(A) A bullet

(B) The cold

(D) Illness

23. Through what Russian city, occupied by the French, does Pierre wander?

(A) Moscow

(B) St. Petersburg

(D) Borodino

24. How does Platon Karataev die?

(A) He drowns in the Niemen River

(B) He is trampled by horses

(D) He is shot by the French

25. What does Natasha do when Andrew rejects her?

(A) She burns his letters

(B) She becomes seriously ill

(D) She renews her acquaintance with Anatole

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