5 problematic questions about the work after the ball. Test based on Leo Tolstoy's story "After the Ball"

Test on the work of L.N. Tolstoy After the ball

ANSWERS PLEASE

The idea of ​​the work:

A) was suggested to the writer by someone;

B) invented by Tolstoy;

IN) real event, which happened to a relative of Tolstoy.

2. Genre of the work:

B) story;

B) story.

What events does Ivan Vasilyevich talk about?

A) Alexandra II

B) Nicholas I

B) Nicholas II

4 . Who owns the words from the story by L.N. Tolstoy After the ball: You say that a person cannot understand on his own what is good and what is bad, that it all depends on the environment, that the environment is corroded. And I think it's all a matter of chance?

A) Varenka

B) Ivan Vasilievich

B) Peter Vladislavovich

5.Number of narrators in the work:

B) several.

6. Who is engineer Anisimov in the story by L.N. Tolstoy After the ball?

A) Neighbor of Ivan Vasilyevich

B) Another gentleman of Varenka at the ball

B) A man watching the punishment scene with Ivan Vasilyevich

7. With which emperor is a parallel drawn when describing Varya’s father in L.N.’s story? Tolstoy After the ball?

A) Alexander III

B) Nicholas I

B) Nicholas II

8. Why was the soldier punished in L.N.’s story? Tolstoy After the ball?

A) For cowardice

B) For escaping

B) For being rude to the boss

9. What is the name of L.N.’s estate? Tolstoy, where he lived most of his life?

A) Bolshiye Luki

B) Yasnaya Polyana

B) Krasnaya Polyana

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10. What compositional technique underlies the story by L.N. Tolstoy After the ball?

A) comparison

B) metaphor

B) antithesis

eleven . Which side creative personality L.N. Tolstoy reveals the story After the ball?

A) irony

B) humanism

B) religiosity

12 . What rank was Varenka's father?

A) Captain

B) Colonel

13. What did Varenka give to the main character as a souvenir?

A) mirror

B) Glove

B) Handkerchief

14. Who did the hero live with at that time?

A) With mom

B) With father

B) With my brother

15. What was his main pleasure in life?

B) Love

B) Balls and festivities

16. Theme of the work:

A) a story about the love of Ivan Vasilyevich;

B) a story about a colonel;

B) showing Nikolaev Russia

17. What especially touched the main character about Varenka’s father?

A) his hairstyle

B) his boots

A) alienation

B) outrage

B) delight

19. The story takes place

A) On the first day of Maslenitsa

B) On the last day of Maslenitsa

B) On Clean Monday

20. After the ball Ivan Vasilievich

A) Went home and went to bed

B) Went on a visit

C) I went home, but couldn’t sleep, so I went for a walk.

21. How did the love story of Ivan Vasilyevich and Varenka end?

A) She left him

B) They began to meet less often and their love faded away.

B) They got married

D) He left her

22. What did the punished Tatar whisper when he passed by Ivan Vasilyevich?

A) Guys, don’t kill.

B) It's not my fault.

B) Sons, have mercy.

D) Brothers, have mercy.

Teacher of Russian language and literature – Pankova Z.V.

MBOU "Poselskaya Secondary School"

Bichursky district, Republic of Buryatia

Test: L.N. Tolstoy “After the Ball” - 8th grade

1. Mark the correct statement.

A. The plot is a story about the life of the hero

B. The plot is the actions and events in the lives of the characters

B. Plot is the actions and events in the lives of characters that take place in space and time

2. Mark the location of the story.

A. Petersburg

B. Moscow

IN. Provincial city

G. County town

3. Note on whose behalf the story is being told.

B. Colonel

V. Ivan Vasilievich

G. Engineer Anisimov

4. Note what feelings the hero of the story experiences at the ball.

A. Love for Varenka

B. Love for Varenka and her father

V. Love for the whole world, because he loves Varenka

5. Note how the hero’s love story ended.

A. Safely

B. Love has waned

V. The hero abruptly broke off relations with his beloved

6. Mark the topic of conversation among the assembled listeners.

A. A person cannot understand for himself that it’s all about the environment

B. For personal improvement, it is necessary first of all to change the conditions in which people live

Q. There are events that dramatically change a person’s whole life

7. Note what type of composition the story is.

A. A story within a story

B. First person narration

8. Mark the correct ratio of episodes by volume.

A. The description of the ball and the description of the execution occupy the same place

B. The description of the ball takes up more pages than the description of the execution.

9. Note why the author needs the image of a narrator.

A. To give credibility to the story

B. Because a first-person story makes it possible to convey the feelings and thoughts of the characters

B. Both options are correct.

10. Note whether the narrator draws conclusions about what he saw on the parade ground.

A. No, he doesn’t want to reason.

B. Yes, he is indignant, opposes arbitrariness

V. No, he does not draw conclusions, but his whole future life depends on what you see

11. Mark the most precise definition the concept of "antithesis".

A. Antithesis is a comparison of different concepts

B. Contrasting concepts

B. Stylistic figure of contrast, sharp opposition

12. Mark the correct statement.

A. In the story, L.N. Tolstoy protests against the reality of Nikolaev

B. In the story by L.N. Tolstoy declares a person’s moral responsibility for what is happening

V. In the story, L.N. Tolstoy calls for a fight against tyranny

13. Mark the time of action in the story.

A. Reign of Alexander I

B. Reign of Nicholas I

B. Reign of Alexander II

A. From the lips of those present at the ball

15. Note what feelings the hero of the story experiences after the scene on the parade ground.

A. Indignation

B. Powerlessness

V. Tosku

16. Note the state of the hero of the story after the events on the parade ground.

A. The colonel’s behavior is incompatible with the hero’s feeling of love

B. What happened convinced the hero of the impossibility of love

B. The hero does not understand what happened, but he cannot love the heroine after what he saw

17. Mark the correct option.

A. Key episode in the story there is a ball scene

B. The key episode in the story is the description of the execution

18. Note how the author’s image appears in the story.

Answers:

1 – B

2 – B

3 – B

4 – B

5 B

6 – B

7 – A

8 – B

9 - B

10 - B

11 – B

12 – B

13 – B

14 – B

15 – V

16 – B

17 – B

18 - B

Questions and answers to L. N. Tolstoy’s story “After the Ball”

For what purpose does L.N. Tolstoy turn to the past?

Unlike Lermontov ("Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich..."), Gogol ("Taras Bulba"), who turned to the past in search of heroic characters, Tolstoy in the story "After the Ball" restores the past to show that its horrors live on in the present, only slightly modified, that the past with its social inequality, cruelty, injustice is invisibly present in today (the time of writing the story), that a renewal of life is necessary. The story echoes two eras - the one that Tolstoy portrays (the 40s of the 19th century, the era of Nicholas I), and the one that is present invisibly, in the setting of social, philosophical problems, moral issues (900s).

What is the main theme of the story?

This is the theme of the moral responsibility of each member of society for the lives of everyone. It is revealed through the image of the narrator, Ivan Vasilyevich, whose life, as he believes, was changed by one single incident.

How is the work constructed?

The composition is based on the technique of antithesis (the ball and after the ball), the story is told in the first person, there are two narrators in the work: a young man who introduces the reader to Ivan Vasilyevich, and Ivan Vasilyevich himself, the narrator and at the same time one of the main characters of the work. What we have before us is, in essence, a “story within a story.” Such ring composition allows us to bring together, and therefore compare, two eras.

On whose behalf is the story told about what happened at the ball and after the ball? Can we consider that there are two narrators in the story “After the Ball”? How can you name each of them, bearing in mind that Ivan Vasilyevich is also the hero of the work?

Let's go back to the beginning of the story.

“You say that a person cannot understand on his own what is good and what is bad...

This is how everyone respected Ivan Vasilyevich spoke after a conversation between us...”

We understand that there are two narrators in the work. One narrates the story from the author. Another one is designated by this author both as a participant in the events and as a narrator - this is Ivan Vasilyevich.

Read the beginning of the story role-playing on behalf of each of the narrators.

Performed on behalf of the author implies a calm and devoid of emotional overtones. Having decided to read on behalf of Ivan Vasilyevich, it is necessary to convey the emotional attitude of this person to the story about his tragic fate. This is all the more important because the author states: “being carried away by the story... he told it very sincerely and truthfully.”

Re-read the final part of the story, which returns the reader to the conversation about the environment, about “what is good and what is bad.” Why did the author return to this conversation again at the end of the story? How is the conversation-conversation that frames the work combined with the theme and content of Ivan Vasilyevich’s story about the events at the ball and after the ball? Why can “After the Ball” be called a story within a story? How are the past and present related in the work?

“After the Ball” is a work that can be called a story within a story, since Ivan Vasilyevich’s narrative about the events at the ball and after the ball arose during a conversation between old friends. They are trying to decide “what is good and what is bad.” Ivan Vasilyevich offers episodes from his life that can help resolve this issue. The conversation between friends - the frame of the story - is the beginning and ending of this work. The frame of the story is also an important part in order to understand how concerned the participants in the conversation are with moral issues.

What feelings overcome young Ivan Vasilyevich at the ball? What does the hero of the story experience after parting with Varenka? What did he “see” and “hear” under the impression of a merry ball? How do the feelings experienced by the hero-narrator upon returning home manifest themselves in relation to his brother and footman Petrusha? How does the hero perceive the morning city landscape? Write down the words and expressions that most succinctly convey Ivan Vasilyevich’s state.

An enthusiastic feeling overwhelmed Ivan Vasilyevich at the ball: “I was not only cheerful and content, I was happy, blissful, I was kind, I was not me, but some unearthly creature who knows no evil and is capable of only good.” These feelings only intensified after his separation from his girlfriend. Both his brother and the footman Petrusha seemed to him “touchingly touching.” An equally tender feeling possessed him when looking at what surrounded him on the street: “everything was especially sweet and significant to me.”

What feelings took possession of Ivan Vasilyevich after what he saw? cruel punishment Tatar? Why are the words “began to discern”, “began to look”, “seen”, “heard”, “seen”, “caught a glimpse”, “heard”, “not knowing where to look”, “seen” so often repeated in his story about punishment? were the words heard? How do they help gradually reveal the growth of the feeling that the hero of the story experienced on the terrible morning of the execution? Write down the words that convey Ivan Vasilyevich’s state as a witness to punishment.

“I was so ashamed...” says Ivan Vasilyevich. He goes home, and “there was an almost physical melancholy in his heart, almost to the point of nausea.” Repeated words that speak of the close attention of an involuntary witness to what is happening force the reader to delve into the essence of what is happening and understand the hero’s experiences.

Tell us about the hero’s experiences and thoughts at the ball and after the ball.

In order to talk about the hero’s experiences and thoughts, you can retell the entire story. But we can characterize them briefly - the path from delight and happiness to shock and horror occupies the entire narrative. Another option is also possible: a description of our reader’s observations of how, from the charm that gripped the hero at the ball, from the feeling of complete happiness, a person suddenly moves to the tragic shock that arises from the scene of the legalized murder of a guilty soldier. It is also worth remembering that these dramatically different pictures unfold against the background of music, which very accurately accompanies the events described on the pages of the story.

What colors predominate in the description of the ball and in the description of the Tatar’s punishment for escaping?

The story breaks up into two contrasting pictures and each of them is sharply different in its tonality, which is noticeable in both the musical and pictorial solutions of these pictures. Even if we look very carefully at the first joyful part of the story, we will see only white, pink and silver colors - a light, festive palette. The harsh, bad music of the second picture is accompanied by black color and “something motley, wet, red, unnatural” that the back of the beaten man has turned into. So, white and pink, black and red. The details that accompany this image only enhance the emotional impact of the paintings.

How is the colonel drawn at the ball and after the ball? Can the words spoken by the colonel at the ball - “everything must be done according to the law” - be correlated with his behavior during the execution?

The image of the colonel at the ball and after the ball is the image of the same person who always follows the law in everything. There is no insidious desire in him to pretend to be something, to deviate from his habits. And the stronger the hero’s shock - he sees that there is no falsehood in a person, that he is always the same, and the more obvious is the organic nature of his behavior on the parade ground during the punishment of the soldier. The colonel is an integral nature, but this integrity includes as its organic and essential part the ability to brutally reprisal, cruelty by order of the charter. If this is so, then it is impossible to change or correct anything in his fate and in his personality.

At the very beginning of the story, Ivan Vasilyevich’s interlocutors talk about the importance of understanding “what is good and what is bad.” What answer does the writer give to these questions in the story “After the Ball”? What illustrations would you draw for the work of L.N. Tolstoy? How would you use your illustrations to respond to the “good” and “bad” in the picture of life depicted in the story?

In the story “After the Ball,” the author gives clear answers to the questions: “what is good” and “what is bad.” One of these answers is the ball scene. The second is the scene after the ball. And the illustrations that could be created could contain either two contrasting paintings or two series of such paintings. Both the ball and the execution consisted of many moments, each of which can be captured in an illustration. The first episode would show how beautiful, touching, and humane the relationship between father and daughter is at the ball. Their beauty, grace, demeanor, plasticity of dance, purely human communication evoke a grateful response from everyone who sees them. And just as emotionally expressive are the brutal scenes of execution, which demonstrate the darkest sides of human character. Here there is cruelty, cowardice, senseless mercilessness, and a calm attitude towards the humiliation of others.

How does Ivan Vasilyevich appear in the characteristics of his interlocutors? What role did “chance” play in Ivan Vasilyevich’s life? How does the hero characterize his decision not to serve in military service and not serve anywhere?

We see Ivan Vasilyevich as a person who is not alien to the joy of contact with beauty, the ability to respond to both good and bad, and sensitivity to what is happening nearby. In the author's depiction, he is presented as a kind, decent person. The interlocutors to whom he told his story evaluate him in the same way. An incident intervened in the usual course of his fate, which showed how Ivan Vasilyevich differs from any other person. In order to renounce the fate familiar to those around him, one must have a strong and decisive character and strength of conviction.

Working on the story “After the Ball,” L. N. Tolstoy expanded the episode of execution and persistently emphasized the contrast in the appearance of the colonel at the ball and after the ball. What was the writer trying to say with this?

Although Tolstoy expanded the description of the execution and at the same time emphasized the contrast in the appearance of the colonel at the ball and after the ball, the events that took place at the ball are depicted in more detail and more fully.

The contrast between these two parts of the story is obvious and the power of the description of the execution still suppresses the bright and joyful colors of the ball.

It is known that in the first edition of the story, Ivan Vasilyevich regrets that he did not marry Varenka. Why did L.N. Tolstoy exclude this motif from the final edition of the story?

If such a regret had remained in the text of the story, then the character of Ivan Vasilyevich would have changed greatly. In this case, he would have come to terms with the contrast in the colonel's behavior. From a person with a sensitive conscience and the ability to make extraordinary decisions, he would turn into one who humbly follows the usual standards.

What do you see as the critical power of storytelling?

The critical power of the story lies in its decisive portrayal of the darker aspects of life, in its obvious statement human dignity. While expanding the tragic part of the story, the author did not reduce the size of the description of the hero’s happiness at the ball. The proportions of good and evil in the story are not violated.

In the original editions, the story had the following titles: “Daughter and Father,” “And You Say.” Why do you think the writer preferred the title “After the Ball”?

In his memoirs about L.N. Tolstoy, the famous lawyer and writer A.F. Koni, touching on the story “After the Ball,” could not ignore the contrast inherent in the work. He noted: “This fatal dissonance is more powerful than any long and complex drama.” In its literal meaning, the word “dissonance” means an inharmonious combination of sounds, and in a figurative sense it means discord, inconsistency, contradiction, a sharp inconsistency with something. In what meaning, in your opinion, did the memoirist use the word “dissonance”? Can the words “contrast” and “dissonance” be called in this case synonyms? Why is “dissonance” called “fatal” by the author of the memoirs?

In the evaluation of the story, the word dissonance is used as a synonym for contrast. Inconsistencies also arise in the emotional structure, color, and sound. The main reason why dissonance is called fatal is that its impact on the fate of the hero is great, that it is terrible as a social phenomenon.

The contrasting comparison of the two parts of the story was clearly reflected in the language work of art. Select antonyms from each part of the story that convey the sounds and colors of the ball and execution. Include them in your oral history.

The ball is wonderful, the hall is beautiful, the musicians are famous (serfs!), the buffet is magnificent and the sea of ​​champagne is poured out...

Something big, black...

Contrasting comparisons are also contained directly in the text: “I was singing all the time in my soul and occasionally heard the mazurka motif. But it was some other, cruel, bad music.”

It is hardly worth comparing the crumpled body of the punished, having lost its human appearance, with the slender and dexterous dancers at the ball. Therefore, we will include them in the oral history with caution.

Characterizing the appearance of the colonel, Tolstoy emphasizes that “his face was very ruddy, with a white curled mustache a la Nicolas I, white sideburns brought to the mustache and with combed forward temples.” Comparing the appearance of the colonel, “a servant of Nicholas’s bearing,” with Nicholas I is an important artistic detail of the story. Think about why the writer resorts to comparing the appearance of the colonel with the appearance of the king. How does this comparison develop in the plot of the story “After the Ball”?

By drawing a portrait of “servants of Nicholas’s bearing,” the author seems to indicate the starting point in revealing his character and life position. For the author, who wrote the story under the impression of his youth, the appearance of the campaigner of Nicholas’s time was alive, which he embodied both in the portrait of the hero of the story, and in his comparison with the appearance of the autocrat. Thus, the author managed to vividly reproduce the Nicholas era.

The portrait of Varenka’s father also speaks about this: “Varenka’s father was a very handsome, stately, tall and fresh old man. His face was very ruddy, with a white curled mustache a la Nicolas I, white sideburns drawn up to the mustache and combed forward temples... He was a military commander, like an old campaigner of Nicholas’ bearing.” The appearance and behavior of the colonel quite fully and uncompromisingly reveals the typical appearance of a martinet of Nikolaev bearing, who behaves and thinks as prescribed.

The hero of the work and narrator Ivan Vasilyevich calls an “incident” from his life “a long story.” But is this really " long story"? After all, he immediately says that his “life changed in one night, or rather morning.” Read the story and watch how the writer, through the mouth of Ivan Vasilyevich, records the time of the night ball and the day that followed it. What events are these timing indications associated with? What is the time distance between the beginning of the story about the “wonderful” ball and the events that close the story of Ivan Vasilyevich?

We remember that the hero left the ball “at five o’clock, by the time he got home, sat at home, another two hours passed, so when I left, it was already light.” So the morning of the next day was marked for Ivan Vasilyevich with a tragic discovery: from the poetic world he unexpectedly moved into the tragic world of cruelty and lawlessness. And this journey took only a few hours.

Drawing the appearance of the hostess of the ball, the writer emphasizes that she was “in a velvet puce dress, with a diamond feronniere on her head and with open old, plump, white shoulders and breasts, like portraits of Elizabeth Petrovna.” Why does Tolstoy, in the story “After the Ball,” recreate the portrait of the ball hostess three times, each time comparing it with the portrait of Elizaveta Petrovna? To what extent does the mention of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna expand the time boundaries of Tolstoy’s work?

The author, hinting several times at the similarity of the hostess of the ball with the portrait of Elizaveta Petrovna, seems to be expanding the time frame. He includes in the system of relationships that excite and outrage him not only several episodes of recent times, but also an era that can be measured in more than a single decade.

With what feeling, remembering the distant past, does Ivan Vasilyevich describe the ball? Imagine that you have to depict a ball on an artistic canvas. What colors would prevail? Why?

How does the colonel appear in the ball scene? What about his appearance and behavior touches and delights the narrator?

Does the mood with which Ivan Vasilyevich returns home affect how he perceives the scene of the soldier being punished for escaping?

How do we see the colonel in this scene? How are his appearance and behavior described here? Let's “write” another picture. What paints will be needed? Why?

So what is the colonel really like? Was he being a hypocrite at the ball? Did you pretend to care? kind father, well-mannered, friendly person?

Can Ivan Vasilyevich answer these questions? What feelings does he have? Did he understand the reasons for the contradictions in the colonel's behavior?

How did what he saw after the ball change the life of this honest, thinking man? Why didn't he become a military man, as he had previously planned? What conclusions did you come to? What did you devote your life to?

Point to specific examples Tolstoy's artistic mastery.

What impression did this story make on you? What got you excited? What did it make you think about?

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy - Test questions for L. N. Tolstoy’s story “After the Ball”

Test questions with selective answers to L. N. Tolstoy’s story “After the Ball”

How is the work constructed?

The composition is based on the technique of antithesis (the ball and after the ball), the story is told in the first person, there are two narrators in the work: a young man who introduces the reader to Ivan Vasilyevich, and Ivan Vasilyevich himself, the narrator and at the same time one of the main characters. What we have before us is, in essence, a “story within a story.” This ring composition allows us to bring together, and therefore compare, two eras.

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For what purpose does L.N. Tolstoy turn to the past?

Unlike Lermontov ("Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich..."), Gogol ("Taras Bulba"), who turned to the past in search of heroic characters, Tolstoy in the story "After the Ball" restores the past to show that its horrors live on in the present, only slightly modified, that the past with its social inequality, cruelty, injustice is invisibly present in today (the time of writing the story), that a renewal of life is necessary. The story echoes two eras - the one depicted by Tolstoy (40s of the 19th century, the era of Nicholas I), and the one that is present invisibly, in the formulation of social, philosophical problems, and moral issues (900s).

What is the main theme of the story?

This is the theme of the moral responsibility of each member of society for the lives of everyone. It is revealed through the image of the narrator, Ivan Vasilyevich, whose life, as he believes, was changed by one single incident.

How is the work constructed?

The composition is based on the technique of antithesis (the ball and after the ball), the story is told in the first person, there are two narrators in the work: a young man who introduces the reader to Ivan Vasilyevich, and Ivan Vasilyevich himself, the narrator and at the same time one of the main characters of the work. What we have before us is, in essence, a “story within a story.” This ring composition allows us to bring together, and therefore compare, two eras.

With what feeling, remembering the distant past, does Ivan Vasilyevich describe the ball? Imagine that you have to depict a ball on an artistic canvas. What colors would prevail? Why?

How does the colonel appear in the ball scene? What about his appearance and behavior touches and delights the narrator?

Does the mood with which Ivan Vasilyevich returns home affect how he perceives the scene of the soldier being punished for escaping?

How do we see the colonel in this scene? How are his appearance and behavior described here? Let's “write” another picture. What paints will be needed? Why?

So what is the colonel really like? Was he being a hypocrite at the ball? Did he pretend to be a caring, kind father, a well-mannered, benevolent person?

Can Ivan Vasilyevich answer these questions? What feelings does he have? Did he understand the reasons for the contradictions in the colonel's behavior?

How did what he saw after the ball change the life of this honest, thinking man? Why didn't he become a military man, as he had previously planned? What conclusions did you come to? What did you devote your life to?

Show Tolstoy's artistic mastery with specific examples.

What impression did this story make on you? What got you excited? What did it make you think about?

L.N. Tolstoy. "After the ball"

13. What did Varenka look like at the ball? Restore the text (write the words separated by commas): “She was wearing... a dress with... a belt and... kid gloves that did not reach her thin, sharp elbows, and... satin shoes.”14. What did Varenka and her father dance: 1) square dance; 2) waltz; 3) mazurka.
15. What Varenka’s father put on before dancing with her: 1) a sword; 2) suede glove; 3) military uniform.
16. “The whole audience watched the couple’s every move. I not only admired them, but looked at them with rapturous emotion. I was especially touched by him... “What is Ivan Vasilyevich talking about?
17. After the ball, Ivan Vasilyevich still had some of Varenka’s things. What kind of things? Write down your answer.18. What music did Ivan Vasilyevich hear when he went out onto the field where Varenka’s house was? 1) cheerful, loud; 2) tough, bad; 3) rough, harsh.
19. The suede glove of the colonel, Varenka’s father, is mentioned 2 times in the work. When? Write down the answer.20. After what event did Ivan Vasilyevich’s life change? Write down your answer.21. Write down the word missing from the text: “What I want to tell you happened in the forties. I was at that time...”