Q 01/05
A) The Cossacks
B) Childhood
C) War and Peace
D) Family Happiness
Answer · why
War and Peace was 'not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle', Tolstoy wrote, arguing that the best Russian books had...
Q 02/05
A) His diary
B) His accounts
C) His will
D) His letters
Answer · why
His diary lays bare his past affairs and his lack of faith; Kitty weeps bitterly over it but marries him all the same.
Q 03/05
A) That her husband knows everything
B) That her son is gravely ill
C) That she is leaving for Moscow
D) That she is pregnant
Answer · why
That she is pregnant with his child; Vronsky urges her to leave her husband, and hours later her open panic when he falls in the race gives the affair...
Q 04/05
A) Marriages
B) Families
C) Children
D) Nations
Answer · why
Families: 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' The line inspired the Anna Karenina principle, that success ...
Q 05/05
A) 'Love thy neighbour as thyself'
B) 'The wages of sin is death'
C) 'Vengeance is mine; I will repay'
D) 'Judge not, that ye be not judged'
Answer · why
'Vengeance is mine; I will repay' sounds like a threat, but in Romans Paul quotes it to tell believers not to take revenge themselves and to leave jud...
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