Practical and test work based on Sholokhov’s novel “Quiet Don. Unified State Exam assignments in literature based on the works of M.A. Sholokhov
Essay topics 17.3
Why did Grigory Melekhov never find his place in the element of warring forces? (Based on the novel “Quiet Don” by M.A. Sholokhov.)
What is the role of female characters in the novel by M.A. Sholokhov "Quiet Don"?
What role does M.A. play in the life of the heroes of the novel? Sholokhov's "Quiet Don" is the family playing?
As in the story by M.A. Sholokhov’s “The Fate of Man” expresses the writer’s humanistic protest against the inhumanity of war?
What is the result of Grigory Melekhov’s life quest? (Based on the novel “Quiet Don” by M.A. Sholokhov.)
What is the meaning of the title of M.A.’s story? Sholokhov "The Fate of Man"?
How the composition of the story “The Fate of Man” helps
M.A. Sholokhov in revealing the image of Andrei Sokolov?
What are the reasons for Grigory Melekhov’s internal conflict caused by the events of the revolution and the Civil War? (Based on the novel by M.A. Sholokhov “Quiet Don”)
He went under the barn and, whistling, began whittling teeth for a rake. Little Mishatka hovered around him, looked pleadingly into his eyes, and asked:
- Uncle Mikhail, make me a small rake, otherwise I have no one to do it for me. Granny doesn’t know how, and auntie doesn’t know how... You alone can do it, you can do it well!
“I’ll do it, namesake, by God, I’ll do it, just move a few pieces away, otherwise shavings won’t get into your eyes,” Koshevoy persuaded him, chuckling
and thinking with amazement: “Well, he looks so much like that little devil... He looks just like Dad!
And the eyes, and the eyebrows, and the upper lip also raises... What a piece of work!”
He began to make tiny children's rakes, but could not finish: his lips turned blue, an embittered and at the same time submissive expression appeared on his yellow face. He stopped whistling, put down the knife and moved his shoulders chillily.
- Mikhailo Grigorich, namesake, bring me some sackcloth,
“I’ll lie down,” he asked.
- What for? – Mishatka asked.
- I want to get sick.
- For what?
- Eh, how persistent you are, just like a burdock... Well, it’s time to get sick, that’s all! Bring it quickly!
- What about my rake?
- Then I’ll finish it.
A violent tremor shook Mishka’s body. Chatting his teeth, he lay down on the sackcloth Mishatka had brought, took off his cap and covered his face with it.
- Are you already sick? – Mishatka asked sadly.
- I'm ready, I'm sick.
- Why are you trembling?
- I'm shaking with fever.
– Why are you clicking your teeth?
From under his cap, Mishka looked at his little annoying namesake with one eye, smiled briefly and stopped answering his questions. Mishatka looked at him in fear and ran into the smoking room.
- Grandma! Uncle Mikhail lay down under the barn and is trembling so, so trembling, he’s starting to light up!
Ilyinichna looked out the window, walked away to the table and was silent for a long, long time, thinking about something...
- Why are you silent, grandma? – Mishatka asked impatiently, tugging at her jacket sleeve.
Ilyinichna turned to him and said firmly:
- Take, my dear, the blanket and take it to him, the Anchichrist, let him cover himself. It’s fever that’s hitting him, that’s the disease. Will you bring the blanket? “She went back to the window, looked out into the yard, and said hastily: “Wait, wait!” Don't wear it, don't.
Dunyashka covered Koshevoy with her sheepskin coat and, leaning over, said something to him...
After the attack, Mishka busied himself until dusk with preparations for mowing. He became noticeably weaker. His movements became sluggish and uncertain, but he still made a rake for Mishatka.
In the evening, Ilyinichna got ready for dinner, seated the children at the table, - without looking at Dunyashka, she said:
- Go, call this... what's his name... for dinner.
Mishka sat down at the table without crossing his forehead, hunched over tiredly. His yellow face, covered with dirty streaks of dried sweat, reflected fatigue, his hand trembled slightly as he carried the spoon to his mouth. He ate little and reluctantly, occasionally looking indifferently at those sitting at the table. But Ilyinichna noticed with surprise that the dull eyes of the “murderer” warmed up and became animated, stopping at little Mishatka, the lights of admiration and affection flashed in them for a moment and went out, and a barely noticeable smile lurked in the corners of his mouth for a long time.
(M.A. Sholokhov, “Quiet Don”)
At the beginning of this episode, a conversation between Koshevoy and Mishatka is described. What term denotes this form of speech in a work of art?
Establish a correspondence between the characters of this episode and the facts of their lives: for each position in the first column, select the corresponding position from the second column.
Mikhail Koshevoy notes that little Mishatka is strikingly similar to his father: “Well, he’s so similar, little devil... He looks just like Dad! And the eyes, and the eyebrows, and the upper lip also raises...” Indicate the first and last name of the hero of the novel that Koshevoy remembers.
Name a means of characterizing a character associated with a description of his appearance, for example, “His yellow face, covered with dirty streaks of dried sweat, reflected fatigue, his hand trembled slightly when he carried a spoon to his mouth.”
What type of novel, which includes the depiction of a large period of historical time or a significant, fateful event in the life of a nation, is “Quiet Don” by M.A. Sholokhov?
Indicate the literary movement, which is characterized by the desire for an objective depiction of life and the principles of which are embodied in “Quiet Don”.
Ilyinichna has reason to dislike Mikhail and call him an “Anchichrist” and a “murderer.” What term denotes a sharp clash of views and life principles of literary characters?
8. What natural properties of human nature are contrasted in this episode with the theory of “class hatred”?
9. In what works of Russian literature do the heroes show humanity in relation to the “alien” and in what ways can these characters be compared with Sholokhov’s Ilyinichna?
The next morning he approached the Don opposite the Tatarsky farm. He looked at his home yard for a long time, turning pale with joyful excitement. Then he took off his rifle and pouch, took out some shitvyanka, hemp flakes, a bottle of gun oil, and for some reason counted the cartridges. There were twelve clips of them and twenty-six pieces in bulk.
At Krutoyar the ice has moved away from the shore. Transparent green water splashed and broke off the spiny ice of the outskirts. Grigory threw his rifle and revolver into the water, then poured out the cartridges and carefully wiped his hands on the floor of his overcoat.
Below the farm, he crossed the Don on the blue March ice, corroded by the rosteppel, and walked briskly towards the house. From afar, he saw Mishatka on the descent to the pier and barely restrained himself from running towards him.
Mishatka broke off the ice icicles hanging from the stone, threw them and carefully watched as the blue fragments rolled down the mountain.
Grigory approached the descent, gasping for breath, hoarsely calling out to his son:
- Misha!.. Son!
Mishatka looked at him in fear and lowered his eyes. He recognized his father in this bearded and scary-looking man...
All the kind and tender words that Grigory whispered at night, remembering his children there in the oak grove, have now flown out of his memory. Kneeling down, kissing his son’s pink, cold hands, he repeated in a choked voice only one word:
- Son... son...
Then Gregory took his son in his arms. With dry, frenziedly burning eyes, eagerly peering into his face, he asked:
- How are you here?.. Auntie, Porlyushka - alive and well?
Still not looking at his father, Mishatka quietly answered:
- Aunt Dunya is healthy, Porlyushka died in the fall... From swallowing. And Uncle Mikhail is in the service...
Well, the little that Gregory dreamed about during his sleepless nights came true. He stood at the gates of his home, holding his son in his arms...
This was all that was left in his life, what still connected him with the earth and with this whole huge world shining under the cold sun.
(M.A. Sholokhov “Quiet Don”)
What is the name of the description of nature in a work of art (“At Krutoyar the ice has moved away from the shore...”)?
What is the name of the technique of contrast, with the help of which the writer conveys the depth of the hero’s experiences (“the cold little hands of the son” - “frenziedly burning eyes”)?
8. Why does the novel “Quiet Don” begin and end with a description of the Melekhovs’ house?
9. Which works of Russian classics show the history of a family?
The Red Army soldiers poured along the street in a crowd, split into groups, and entered courtyards. Three turned into the gate towards Anikushka, five, one of them on horseback, remained near the Astakhov kuren, and the remaining five headed along the fence to the Melekhovs. Walking ahead was a short, elderly Red Army soldier, shaven, with a flattened, wide-nosed nose, all dexterous, athletic, and clearly an old front-line soldier. He was the first to enter the Melekhovsky base and, stopping near the porch, for a minute, bowing his head, looked at the yellow dog rattling on a leash, gasping and choking on barks; then he took the rifle off his shoulder. The shot blew a white smoke of frost from the roof. Grigory, straightening the collar of the shirt that was choking him, saw through the window, as if in the snow, staining his blood, a dog was rolling, in the furious death throes gnawing at his shot side and an iron chain. Looking around, Grigory saw the women’s faces washed with pallor and the memoryless eyes of his mother. He stepped into the hallway without a hat.
Gregory opened the door. An empty shell casing fell on the threshold, ringing. The lagging Red Army soldiers entered the gate.
-Why did you kill the dog? Did you interfere? – Gregory asked, standing on the threshold.
The Red Army soldier's wide nostrils gasped for air, and the corners of his thin, blue-shaved lips slid down. He looked around, threw the rifle over his hand:
-What do you want? It's a pity? But I feel sorry for wasting a cartridge on you. Want? Stand up!
- But, but, come on, Alexander! – a tall, red-browed Red Army soldier said, approaching and laughing. - Hello, master! Have you seen the red ones? Take it to the apartment. Did he kill your dog? In vain!.. Comrades, come in.
Gregory was the last to enter. The Red Army soldiers greeted cheerfully, took off their pouches, Japanese leather bandoleers, and piled overcoats, cotton warmers, and hats onto the bed in a heap. And immediately the entire smoking area was filled with the poisonous-smelling alcoholic spirit of soldiery, the indivisible smell of human sweat, tobacco, cheap soap, gun oil - the smell of distant poutines.
The one whose name was Alexander sat down at the table, lit a cigarette and, as if continuing the conversation he had begun with Grigory, asked:
- Were you wearing white?
- Here... I immediately see the owl by its flight, and you by its snot. Little white! Officer, huh? Gold shoulder straps?
He blew smoke out of his nostrils in a column, glared at Gregory, who stood at the ceiling, with cold, unsmiling eyes, and kept tapping the cigarette from below with his smoky, convex fingernail.
- An officer, right? Confess! I can see from the expression: I broke the German one myself.
“He was an officer,” Grigory smiled forcibly and, catching Natalya’s frightened, pleading gaze from the side, frowned and trembled his eyebrow. He felt annoyed at his smile.
(M.A. Sholokhov, “Quiet Don”.)
To which literary movement does M.A.’s work belong? Sholokhov, in particular the work “Quiet Don”?
What means of creating the image of a hero, based on a description of his appearance, is used in the above fragment (“... a short, elderly Red Army soldier, shaven, with a flattened, wide-nosed nose, all dexterous, well-built...”)?
What is the name of an expressive evaluative definition (“without smiling eyes”, “pleading look”)?
The above fragment ends with a conversation between Gregory and one of the Red Army soldiers. What is the term for replica exchange?
Name an artistic technique based on the transfer of the properties of one phenomenon to another based on their similarity (“the faces of women washed with pallor”).
Indicate the name of a significant detail that gives the story special expressiveness (“An empty cartridge fell on the threshold, ringing”).
Indicate the genre of M.A.’s work. Sholokhov "Quiet Don".
8. How was the tragedy of the Civil War reflected in a short episode from “Quiet Don”?
9. What works of Russian writers depict wartime scenes and in what ways do they have something in common with Sholokhov’s “Quiet Don”? (Give 2–3 examples indicating the authors.)
Prokofy's wife died in the evening of the same day. The premature baby, taking pity, was taken by the grandmother, Prokofiev’s mother.
They covered him with steamed bran, gave him mare's milk, and a month later, making sure that the dark, Turkish boy would survive, they carried him to church and baptized him. They named him Panteley after his grandfather. Prokofy returned from hard labor twelve years later. His trimmed red and gray beard and ordinary Russian clothes made him look like a stranger, unlike a Cossack. He took his son and started farming.
Panteley grew up dark-skinned and poor. He looked like his mother in face and fit figure.
Prokofy married him to a Cossack woman - the daughter of a neighbor.
Since then, Turkish blood began to interbreed with Cossack blood. Hence the hook-nosed, wildly handsome Melekhov Cossacks came to the farm,
and in street terms - Turks.
After burying his father, Panteley became involved in the farm: he re-roofed the house, added half a tithe of land to the estate, built new sheds and a barn under tin. The roofer, according to the owner's order, cut a couple of tin roosters from scraps and mounted them on the roof of the barn. They amused the Melekhov base with their carefree appearance, giving him an appearance of self-satisfaction and prosperity.
Pantelei Prokofyevich began to grow heavy down the slope of the sliding years: he stood tall, slightly stooped, but still looked like a well-built old man. He was bone-dry, lame (in his youth he broke his left leg at an imperial horse racing show), wore a silver crescent-shaped earring in his left ear, his raven beard and hair did not fade into old age, in anger he reached the point of unconsciousness and, apparently, this prematurely aged his once beautiful, but now portly wife, completely entangled in a web of wrinkles.
His eldest, already married son, Petro, resembled his mother: small, snub-nosed, with wild, wheat-colored hair, brown eyes; and the youngest, Grigory, took after his father: half a head taller than Peter, at least six years younger, the same as his father’s, a drooping kite nose, in slightly slanting slits there are bluish almonds of hot eyes, sharp slabs of cheekbones are covered with brown, ruddy skin. Grigory was slouched in the same way as his father, even in their smile they both had something in common, a beastly quality.
Dunyashka - her father's weakness - a long-armed, big-eyed teenager, and Petrov's wife Daria with a small child - that's the whole Melekhov family.
(M.A. Sholokhov, “Quiet Don”.)
In the proposed fragment, a significant place is occupied by the description of the appearance of Pantelei Prokofievich and his children. What is this means of characterization called?
Name the character mentioned in this fragment, who is the main character of “Quiet Don”.
What term denotes an expressive detail that has an important semantic content (for example, tin roosters on the roof of the Melekhov barn)?
What is the name for deliberate violation of the usual word order in a phrase (“They amused Melekhov’s base with their carefree appearance, giving him a smug and prosperous appearance”)?
Indicate the literary direction, the main principle of which is an objective depiction of life and in line with which the work of M.A. developed. Sholokhov.
Name the genre to which Sholokhov's "Quiet Don" belongs.
8. How do the Melekhovs internally stand out among the Cossacks?
9. In what works of Russian classics does the “family thought” sound and in what ways are these works consonant with Sholokhov’s “Quiet Don”?
... As soon as Aksinya arrived home, she emptied the buckets, went up to the mirror embedded in the stone of the stove, and for a long time excitedly looked at her aged, but still beautiful face. He still had the same vicious and alluring beauty, but the autumn of life had already cast faded colors on his cheeks, yellowed his eyelids, woven sparse cobwebs of gray hair into his black hair, and dimmed his eyes. A mournful weariness was already visible from them.
Aksinya stood there, and then went up to the bed, fell on her face and cried such abundant, relieving tears as she had not cried in a long time.
In winter, chilly winter winds swirl and howl over the steep slope of Mount Obdonskaya, somewhere above the convex ridge of the descent, colloquially called “Tiber.” They carry white crumbs of snow from a hillock covered with golyzins, sweep it into a snowdrift, and pile it up into layers. Sugary sparkling in the sun, blue at dusk, pale lilac in the morning and pink at sunrise, a snow giant will hang over the cliff. It will hang, threatening with silence, until the thaw undermines it from underneath or, burdened with its own weight, is pushed by a gust of side wind. And then, drawn down, it will fall with a dull and soft roar, crushing small-growing thorn bushes on its way, breaking hawthorn trees shyly huddling along the slope, swiftly dragging behind it a boiling silver hem of snow dust rising to the sky...
Aksinya’s many years of feeling, accumulating like a drift of snow, needed the slightest push. And the impetus was the meeting with Gregory, his affectionate: “Hello, dear Aksinya!” And he? Wasn't he dear to her? Wasn’t it him that she remembered all these years every day, hourly, always returning to him in obsessive thoughts? And no matter what she thought, no matter what she did, she was always invariably, inseparably in her thoughts about Gregory. This is how a blind horse walks in a circle in a chigir, rotating the watering wheel around its axis...
Aksinya lay on the bed until evening, then she got up, swollen from tears, washed her face, combed her hair, and with feverish speed, like a girl before a bridesmaid, began to dress. She put on a clean shirt, a burgundy woolen skirt, covered herself, glanced at herself in the mirror, and went out.
It was gray twilight over Tatarskoe. Somewhere in the flood of hollow water, geese cackled anxiously. The weakly pale moon rose from under the Obdon poplars. A greenish stitch of moonlight lay rippling on the water. The herd returned from the steppe before dark. Cows that had not yet eaten enough of the young green stuff mooed around the bases.
(M.A. Sholokhov “Quiet Don”)
The heroine’s internal state is conveyed through the description of the movement of the snow mass. What is the description of nature in a work of art called?
8. What is the role of pictures of nature in the above scene?
9. In what works of Russian prose writers does the depiction of nature help to understand the inner world of the characters?
From that day on, the roar of guns sounded non-stop for four days. The dawns were especially audible. But when the northeast wind blew, the thunder of distant battles could be heard in the middle of the day. On the threshing floors, work stopped for a minute, the women crossed themselves, sighed heavily, remembering their relatives, whispering prayers, and then the stone rollers began to dully rumble on the threshing floors, the driver boys urged the horses and bulls, the winnowing machines rattled, the working day entered into its inalienable rights. The end of August was fine and surprisingly dry. The wind carried chaff dust through the farm, there was a sweet smell of threshed rye straw, the sun was mercilessly warm, but in everything one could already feel the approach of the near autumn. In the pasture, faded gray wormwood was dimly white, the tops of the poplars beyond the Don turned yellow, in the gardens the smell of Antonovka became sharper, the distant horizons became autumn-like, and the first colonies of migrating cranes already appeared in the empty fields.
Day after day, along the Hetman's Way, carts stretched from west to east, bringing military supplies to the crossings across the Don; refugees appeared in Obdon farmsteads. They said that the Cossacks were retreating
with battles; some claimed that this retreat was being carried out deliberately in order to lure the Reds and then surround them
and destroy. Some of the Tatars slowly began to prepare to leave. They fed bulls and horses, buried bread and chests in holes at night
with the most valuable property. The noise of the guns, which had fallen silent on September 5, resumed with renewed vigor and now sounded distinct and menacing. The fighting took place about forty miles from the Don, in the direction northeast of Tatarskoye. A day later it began to thunder upstream in the west. The front was inevitably moving towards the Don.
Ilyinichna, who knew that most of the farmers were going to retreat, invited Dunyashka to leave. She felt a sense of confusion and bewilderment and did not know what to do with the household, with the house; Should I give up all this and leave with people or stay at home. Before leaving for the front, Panteley Prokofievich spoke about threshing, about the plowed winter, about cattle, but did not say a word about what they should do if the front approached Tatarsky. Just in case, Ilyinichna decided this: to send Dunyashka with her children and the most valuable property with someone from the farm, and to remain herself, even if the Reds occupied the farm.
On the night of September 17, Pantelei Prokofievich unexpectedly came home. He came on foot from near the Kazan village, exhausted and angry. After resting for half an hour, he sat down at the table and began to eat as Ilyinichna had never seen in her entire life; the half-bucket cast iron of lean cabbage soup seemed to be thrown behind itself, and then fell onto the millet porridge. Ilyinichna clasped her hands in amazement:
- Lord, how do you eat, Prokofich! Tell me, you haven’t eaten for three days!
“And you thought you ate, you old fool!” For exactly three days there was no poppy dew in my mouth!
- Well, they don’t feed you there, or what?
- Damn if they fed them like that! - Panteley Prokofievich answered, purring like a cat, with his mouth full. - What you forge is what you eat,
but I haven’t learned how to steal. This is good for the young, they don’t even have a conscience left for a semak [two kopecks]... During this damned war, they became so hands-on with theft that I was horrified, horrified, and stopped. Everything they see is taken, pulled, dragged... Not war, but the passion of the Lord!
(M.A. Sholokhov, “Quiet Don”)
What type of literature does “Quiet Don” by M.A. belong to? Sholokhov?
Name the novel by A.S. Pushkin about Pugachev’s uprising, which, like “Quiet Don,” depicts the elements of Russian rebellion.
Panteley Prokofievich uses phrases like “there was no poppy dew in my mouth”, “what you forage is what you eat.” What are these figurative folk sayings called?
Establish a correspondence between the characters appearing in this novel and the facts of their future fate: for each position in the first column, select the corresponding position from the second column.
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Indicate the surname of Pantelei Prokofievich and his sons.
What term denotes a significant detail that carries an artistic function (for example, a half-bucket cast iron of lean cabbage soup, which the hungry Panteley Prokofievich pounced on)?
Indicate the genre to which Sholokhov's "Quiet Don" belongs.
8. How is the tragedy of the Civil War reflected in the above fragment?
9. What works of Russian literature contain a military theme and in what ways can these works be compared with Sholokhov’s “Quiet Don”?
Practical work on parts 3-4 of “Quiet Don”.
The reality of war on the pages of the novel.
Grigory Melekhov and the war: in search of truth.
Task 1. War in the novel is the antithesis of normal life. Which episodes and how do they support this idea?
See how war enters the world of the novel's heroes? (Part 3, Chapter III)
Find lyrical digressions (part 3, end of chapter VI, beginning of chapter X, beginning of chapter XVI). Determine the cross-cutting thought that unites them.
What role does the diary of former student Timofey play in the narrative of the war (Part 3, Chapter XI)?
Sholokhov uses Tolstoy’s technique when talking about the Cossack Kryuchkov and his feat (Part 3, Chapters VIII-IX). What is the essence of this technique and why does the author need it?
Task 2. War is a test of humanity for every person. Which episodes and how do they support this idea? (Part 3)
What is the meaning of the antithesis: Alexey Uryupin, nicknamed Chubaty, - Grigory Melekhov? And how is it implemented?
What is the meaning of the antithesis: Evgeny Listnitsky - Grigory Melekhov? And how is it implemented?
Task 3. War is a test of the world - for its ability to be resilient and revived, to preserve covenants and shrines in it. Which episodes and how do they support this idea?
On pages 3 and 4 of parts we meet the Bolshevik agitators Garanzha (part 3, chapter XXIII) and Bunchuk (part 4, chapter XIII). Why are they successful with their listeners?
How does the author create the image of Lavr Georgievich Kornilov on the pages of Part 4? Try to determine Sholokhov’s attitude towards this person? Why does he often use documentary evidence - letters and telegrams from Kornilov? (Ch. XV, XVI, XVII, XX)
Can Atarshchikov (Part 4, Chapter XI, XIX) and Kalmykov (Part 4, Chapter XVII) already be considered victims of the civil war, although it is still ahead? Why?
CONCLUSIONS: …
Practical work on part 6 of “Quiet Don”. M.A. Sholokhov.
Alien (“Nowhere to go!”). The hero's path in the civil war.
1. The main events of part 6, dedicated to the Veshensky uprising, are preceded by chapters about the sluggish confrontation of the Cossack self-defense units with the Reds advancing from the north (chapter 2, 8-10). Highlight the most striking episodes that show us the mood of the Cossacks and Gregory’s thoughts in tune with it. Nevertheless, it is already clear here: a stranger... How does this manifest itself?
2. The first meeting of the Melekhovs with the Red Army soldiers takes place in their home. What did this meeting convince Gregory of (chapter 16)?
3. Why does Grigory Melekhov still join the Cossacks who rebelled against the Bolsheviks?
Wed. points of view of literary scholars: 1) In the main character, “the writer sharply reveals terrible, bestial features - the face of the owner” (N. Dragomiretskaya, 1958); 2) “To the common, the Cossack - as they understand it, - Grigory is devoted with all his soul... And least of all cares about personal gain...” (V. Litvinov, 1980).
4. See the disputes about power that Grigory wages with the Bolsheviks Koshev and Kotlyarov (chapter 20). Who do you think is closer to the truth in their observations and conclusions?
5. How does the novel talk about the reasons for the Veshensky uprising (chap. 19, 22-23, 26-28, 39, etc.)?
6. Here we see Gregory at the time of the greatest external successes: commander of the Veshensky regiment, then a division in the army of the rebellious Upper Don District. Is his path clear now (chap. 36, 44, 46)?
7. See the antitheses and parallels in the system of images in part 6. Which characters are compared by the author and in what ways?
CONCLUSIONS: …
Final questions and tasks for the written survey
based on the novel by M.A. Sholokhov "Quiet Don"
1. Trace the storyline of the hero (Mikhail Koshevoy, Aksinya, Natalya, Mitka Korshunov - according to options) in the form of a plan. Make a generalization about the character embodied in this character.
2. What role do the love stories of the novel’s minor characters play in the story? (On two or three examples.)
3. In a work of art, one of the important techniques is the introduction of the hero’s dream. What “dreams” do we find in the novel “Quiet Don”. What are they about? What is their meaning? (On two or three examples.)
4. In what episodes of the novel does the author introduce the song? What role do Cossack songs play in the artistic structure of the novel? (On two or three examples.)
5. In “Quiet Don” the author often uses parallel scenes. Give examples of such parallelism. What is the point of juxtaposing the scenes you have chosen?
6. See the final scenes of parts of the novel. Determine their ideological and artistic meaning, their role in the composition of the part, the novel.
Get ready
for the essay (episode analysis):
The most tragic pages of the novel by M.A. Sholokhov "Quiet Don".
Test on the creativity of M.A. Sholokhov. 11th grade 1 option
1.Indicate the years of life of M. Sholokhov
A) 1905-1984
B) 1895-1950
B) 1900-1985
D) 1910-1990
2. The first collection of stories that made the name of M.A. Sholokhov famous was called:
A) Azure steppe
B "Don Stories"
B) “Alien Blood”
D) “The Science of Hate”
3. What class does M. Sholokhov depict in his works?
A) merchants
B) peasantry
B) Cossacks
D) nobility
4. Which description does not apply to Grigory Melekhov:
5. What prize was awarded to Sholokhov for his novel “Virgin Soil Upturned”?
a) Stalin's;
b) Nobel;
c) Leninskaya.
6.. In what year does the novel “Quiet Don” begin?
a) 1912; 6)1913; c) 1914.
7. Why were the Melekhovs called “Turks”, “Circassians”?
A) because they had an unbridled character?
B) because they were desperately brave
C) because Grigory Melekhov’s grandmother was Turkish
8. When did the wedding of Gregory and Natalia take place?
a) On Easter;
b) into a meat eater;
c) on Christmas.
9. In what war did Prokofy Melekhov participate?
a) In the Russian-Turkish 1828-1829;
b) in Crimean;
c) in the Russian-Turkish 1877-1878.
10. There are no episodes in Sholokhov’s novel “Quiet Don”:
a) World War I
b) civil war
c) Vel. Patriotic War
d) establishment of Soviet power
11. What is Aksinya’s fate in the novel?
A) dies from a random bullet
B) unites his fate with the fate of Gregory
B) shot as an accomplice of the White Guards by Mikhail Koshev
D) committed suicide by drowning in the river
12. What American novel can “Quiet Don” be compared to and why?
13Grigory Melekhov was awarded in the First World War
a) Cross of St. George c) Order of A. the First-Called
b) medal “For Courage” d) home leave
14. The civil war is depicted by Sholokhov to show
a) the heroism of the Red Army c) the tragedy of the people
b) white heroism d) its inevitability
15. Researcher of Sholokhov’s creativity V.N. Sabalenko calls
the author of "The Quiet Don" "the author of the Iliad of the 20th century." What do you think this opinion is based on?
16. What artistic device is used in the title of Sholokhov’s novel?
18. Why was Grigory Melekhov chosen as the main character? In which episodes does Gregory’s personality reveal itself most clearly?
Test on the creativity of M.A. Sholokhov. 11th grade 2nd option
1 . In what year was the novel “Quiet Don” first published as a separate book?
a) 1938;
b) 1941;
c) 1953.
2. In what year did Sholokhov receive the Nobel Prize?
a) 1958;
b) 1965;
3. To which group of Cossacks did the Melekhovs belong?
A) Cossack aristocracy (kulaks)
B) strong Cossacks (middle peasants)
B) noble Cossacks, poor people)
4. What does the author not accept about the heroes of the novel “Quiet Don”?
A) pride
B) hard work
B) compassion
D) senseless cruelty
5. The word “Cossack” is of Turkic origin. What does it mean when translated into Russian?
a) robber
B) warrior
B) farmer
D) daredevil
A) as a senseless, cruel war
B) as a just war waged for the sake of freedom and equality of classes
C) as a phenomenon disgusting to the human mind
D) as tragic but inevitable events
7. For what purpose does Sholokhov introduce battle scenes:
a) show the heroism of the people
b) show what war does to a person,
c) show the senselessness of war
d) raise the spirit of the people
8. M. A. Sholokhov’s novel “Quiet Don” was completed in
a) 1928, c) 1940
b) 1932 d) 1946
9. How long does the novel “Quiet Don” last?
A) 12 years b) 10 years c) 20 years d) 5 years
10. In the image of Grigory Melekhov the following were embodied:
A) traits of a self-lover, individualist
B) features typical of the Cossacks
C) the best features characteristic of the Cossacks
D) features unusual for the Cossacks
11.What American novel can “Quiet Don” be compared to and why?
12. Which description does not apply to Grigory Melekhov:
a) “Medium height, thin, eyes set close to the fleshy bridge of the nose, brightened with cunning,” “an oblique transverse wrinkle, scarring ... his forehead, moved slowly and heavily, as if pushed from within by the course of some hidden thoughts”;
b) “... he threw his hat onto the snow, stood there, swaying, and suddenly gritted his teeth, groaned terribly and, with a distorted face, began to tear at the fastenings of his overcoat”;
c) There is no one truth in life. It is clear that whoever defeats whom will devour him. And I was looking for the bad truth. I was sick at heart, I was swaying back and forth”;
d) “Mishatka looked at him in fear and lowered his eyes. He recognized his father in this bearded and scary man.”
13.What genre tradition is not present in the novel “Quiet Don”:
A) Cossack epic b) family saga c) love story d) adventure novel e) military historical chronicle f) philosophical-existential parable
14. What, from the point of view of D. Bykov, did M. Sholokhov succeed best in “Quiet Don”?
15. Researcher of Sholokhov’s work V.N. Sabalenko calls the author of “The Quiet Don” “the author of the Iliad of the 20th century.” What do you think this opinion is based on?
16. How does Sholokhov feel about his hero Grigory Melekhov? Does he execute, punish, or sympathize, worry, suffer along with his hero? What feelings does the writer awaken towards the hero?
17. What classical model did M. Sholokhov follow in the novel “Quiet Don”?
18. Do you think Sholokhov manages to “convey the movement of the human soul” using the example of the fate of Grigory Melekhov? What is the tragedy of Grigory Melekhov?
MUNICIPAL BUDGETARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
“Secondary school No. 2 named after. G.V.Kravchenko" Vuktyla.
Test work on the works of M.A. Sholokhov. Grade 11.
Goal: to test knowledge of the biographical and historical-cultural context of M.A. Sholokhov’s novel “Quiet Don”, knowledge and understanding of the text, mastery of the fundamentals of literary theory and the ability to correctly use literary terminology.
Compiled by: Latsyba Tamara Ivanovna, teacher of Russian language and literature.
Option 1.
1. What is the name of the first collection of stories by M.A. Sholokhov, which made his name famous?
2. Which 19th century writer’s work served as a model for Sholokhov to create the epic novel “Quiet Don”?
3. Which of the heroes of the novel “Quiet Don” goes through a complex and winding path in search of the truth?
4. Where do the family chapters of the novel “Quiet Don” take place?
5. Which female image in the novel is a symbol of the father’s house, the hearth?
6.What is the term used in literature to describe an extended statement by the heroine, not addressed to anyone, uttered only in her own thoughts: “And he? Wasn't he dear to her? Wasn’t it him she was thinking about all these years?”
7.What means of artistic expression does M.A. Sholokhov use in the lines: “The warmed red sun nestled like an affectionate calf against the thawed mound”?
8. What means of artistic expression allowed M.A. Sholokhov to figuratively characterize the heroine: “Aksinya... with feverish speed, like a girl before a show...”?
9. What is the literary term that denotes the figurative definitions that the author uses when depicting Aksinya: “vicious beauty”, “sorrowful fatigue”, “relieving tears”?
10. Give examples of dialectisms that M.A. Sholokhov uses in the novel “Quiet Don” to create a special, folk flavor of the Cossack class.
11. Translate a quote from the novel into literary language: “Leaning back, the mother carries dung in a curtain to the flood…”
12. Try to describe the spectrum of meaning of the word “house” in the novel. How do you explain the meaning of the ending?
Option 2.
1. In what year was Sholokhov awarded the Nobel Prize?
2. Over what period of time do the events of the novel “Quiet Don” take place?
3. What class does M.A. Sholokhov depict in his works?
4. How does the novel “Quiet Don” end?
5. Which of the heroes of the novel “Quiet Don” kills an Austrian in battle, and then, “without knowing why,” approaches him, looks into the face of the murdered man and is imbued with a feeling of compassion for him?
6. Why does M.A. Sholokhov use dialect vocabulary?
7. Translate the quotation from the novel into literary language: “I went to the village for ukhnals, I saw one from the farm.”
8. What means of artistic expression does M.A. Sholokhov use in the lines: “Behind a pinkish, cheerful cloud, like a child’s smile, a thin, thin edge of the sky loomed in the sky”?
9. What means of artistic expression allowed M.A. Sholokhov to figuratively characterize the heroine: “Aksinya tried to sleep, but her thoughts scattered her sleep like the wind scattered a haystack”?
10. What is the name of the description in a work of fiction: “At Krutoyar the ice has moved away from the shore. Transparent green water splashed and broke off the spiny ice of the outskirts residents?
11. Find in the sentence epithets that emphasize the indifferent greatness of nature: “This was all that was left in his life, which still connected him with the earth and with this whole huge world shining above the cold sun.”
12. Reflect, based on the pages of the novel, on the topic: “Why does the novel “Quiet Don” begin and end with a description of the Melekhovs’ house?”
ANSWERS.
Option 1.
1. “Don Stories”. 2. L.N. Tolstoy “War and Peace”. 3. Grigory Melekhov.4. On the Tatarsky farm.5. Ilyinichny.6. Internal monologue.7. Personification.8. Comparison.9. Epithets.10. Kuren (house), base (yard), zaveska (apron), uhnali (nails), sutskoy (official, intellectual), gutarit (speak), skaz (answer), etc. 11. Leaning back, carries the mother in an apron for kindling dung.12. Home is the only thing that, after all life’s trials and losses, connects Gregory with life. “House” takes on the meaning of a philosophical center in the novel.
Option 2.
1. In 1965.2. For 10 years.3. Cossacks.4. Gregory “stood at the gates of his home, holding his son in his arms...”5. Grigory Melekhov.6. To create a special folk national flavor.7. I went to the village to buy nails for horseshoes and saw one resident of the farm.8. Comparison.9. Comparison.10. Landscape.11... huge, shining above the cold12. “House” takes on the meaning of a philosophical center in the novel.
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CARD No. 1 Read the description of Don nature. What is the role of these descriptions?
Part 1 chapter 4, part 1 chapter 9
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CARD No. 2
Read the description of the Cossack farm. Prove that the author paints the farm with love.
Part 1 chapter 1
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CARD No. 3
Retell with quotation the episode “Song of the Cossacks”
Part 1 chapter 5
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CARD No. 4
Retell with quotation the episode “The Race of Mishka Koshevoy and Evgeny Listnitsky”
Part 1 chapter 8
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CARD No. 5
Tell the life story of Prokofy Melekhov. What features of the Melekhov family appeared in this story?
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CARD No. 6
Tell us how the morning began in the Melekhov family.
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CARD No. 8
Retell the episodes of matchmaking and wedding. Why is it valued among Cossacks?
Human? Support your answer with quotations.
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CARD No. 9
Tell us how the relationship between Aksinya and Gregory developed in the first part. How did the farmers react to their love?
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CARD No. 1
When did the Cossacks first hear news of the war and where? What words convey an alarming tone?
Part 3
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CARD No. 2
Retell with quotation the episode “Gregory Kills the Austrian”
What psychological shades can be identified in the description of the Austrian’s appearance? How does Sholokhov convey Grigory’s condition? What words express the author’s assessment of what is happening? What does this scene reveal in the hero of the novel?
Part 3 chapter 5
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CARD No. 3
Tell us about Gregory's meeting with his brother. What does Gregory confess to Petro? Do all Cossacks worry as much as Gregory? Remember how Chubatiy treats murder. What does he say about himself? Read it.
Part 3
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CARD No. 4
Tell us about the clash between Chubaty and Grigory. What caused it?
Part 3 chapter 12
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CARD No. 5
How did Gregory change externally during the war? How did he change internally? Read out the quotes.
Part 3
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CARD No. 6
Retell the episode of how Ivanov came face to face with the Germans.
Part 3 chapter 8
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CARD No. 7
Read quotes from the diary that speak about the monstrous absurdity of war.
Part 3 chapter 11
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CARD No. 8
Retell with quotation the episode “The Death of Yegorka Zharkov”
Part 3 chapter 20
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CARD No. 9
Read the moment when Colonel Golovachev took pictures of the attack. What does this mean?
Part 3 chapter 22
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CARD No. 10
Read the description of the battlefield with a huge number of dead.
Part 4 chapter 3
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CARD No. 11
Retell with quotation the episode “Likhovidov’s Madness.”
Part 4 chapter 3
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CARD No. 1
Tell us about the atrocities of the Red Army in the villages. Episode "Red Army Soldiers at the Melekhovs".
Part 6 chapter 16
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CARD No. 2
Read what Bunchuk says about the need for cruelty.
Part 5 chapter 7, 20
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CARD No. 3
Tell us how Podtelkov killed Chernetsov.
Part 5 chapter 12
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CARD No. 4
Tell us about the death of Podtelkov’s squad.
Part 5 chapter 30
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CARD No. 5
Read how the author writes about surplus appropriation.
Part 6 chapter 22, 49
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CARD No. 6
Read how Sholokhov describes the robberies of the Cossacks.
Part 6 chapter 9
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CARD No. 7
Read how an Old Believer tells Shtokman in Chapter 39 of Part 6 about the atrocities of the Reds.
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CARD No. 8
Read how Likhachev died.
Part 6 chapter 31
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CARD No. 9
Read how Mishka Koshevoy executed Pyotr Melekhov.
Part 6 chapter 33
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CARD No. 10
Tell us how Gregory hacked to death four sailors and what his condition was after what he did.
Part 6 chapter 44
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CARD No. 11
Tell us about Shtokman's death.
Part 6 chapter 49
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CARD No. 12
Tell us how the people greet the Red prisoners and how Daria kills Ivan Alekseevich.
Part 6 chapters 54-56
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CARD No. 13
Tell us how Mishka Kosheva takes revenge for the death of Shtokman and Ivan Alekseevich
Part 6 chapter 65
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CARD No. 14
Tell us how Mishka Korshunov takes revenge for the death of his family.
Part 7 chapter 12
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CARD No. 15
What is expressive about the ending of the first volume of book 2? Analyze.
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CARD No. 1
Analyze Gregory’s relationship with Aksinya and Natalya. What traits of him showed up in these relationships?
A/ Grigory’s last meeting with Natalya.
Part 7 chapter 7
B/ Natalya’s death and related experiences
Part 7 chapters 16-18
B/ Death of Aksinya
Part 8 chapter 17
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CARD No. 2
Analyze the episode with Franya. What features of Gregory showed up here?
Part 2 chapter 2
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CARD No. 3
What features of Grigory appeared in the reaction to the news of the execution of Ivan Alekseevich?
Part 6
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CARD No. 4
Analyze the episode “Fight with Stepan Astakhov over Aksinya.”
Part 1 chapter 12
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CARD No. 5
Analyze the episode “Leaving Aksinya for Yagodnoye”
Part 2 chapter 11-12
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CARD No. 6
Analyze the episode "Encounter with the Sergeant"
Part 3 chapter 2