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The Long Exile
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A story in a fable format, written by Leo Tolstoy, this is about Aksenof, a once unruly alcoholic tamed by marriage, who sets off one day for a great fair. His wife advise him against it, due to a prophetic dream, and he shrugs off her admonition.

The Long Exile
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25 Questions

1. Who Is The Main Character Of The Story?

2. Where Did Aksenof Stop On His Way To The Fair?

3. What Did Aksenof Notice One Day In Prison?

4. What Was Aksenof's Wife's Reaction After He Was Arrested And Sentenced For Murdering The Tradesman?

5. Why Did Aksenof Suspect The Makar Had Killed The Merchant And Put The Knife In His Bag?

6. What Was In Akesenof's Wife's Bad Dream?

7. What Did Makar Decide To Do At The End?

8. What Did Aksenof Do After His Wife Doubted His Innocence?

9. What Is The City In Russia Where The Story Begins?

10. What Orders Came Through For Aksenof At The End?

11. How Did Aksenof Behave When He Was Being Questioned By The Police?

12. Where Was Aksenof Planning To Go In The Beginning Of The Story?

13. What Did The Police Find In Aksenof's Bag?

14. What Did Aksenof's Wife Have The Night Before He Left For The Fair?

15. Why Did The Prison Authorities Question Aksenof About The Disturbed Soil?

16. Why Didn't Aksenof Go Home After His Release Order?

17. A New Prisoner

18. What Does Aksenof Do For A Living?

19. Where Did Aksenof Have To Work In The Prison In Siberia?

20. Where Was Aksenof Sent?

21. What Did The People Of Vladimir Say About Aksenof When The Police Questioned Them?

22. Why Did Aksenof Decide Not To Tell On Makar?

23. How Was Aksenof Punished?

24. Who Did Aksenof Have Tea With And Stay Next To At The Inn?

25. Why Was The Soil Under The Bunk Disturbed?