1. Why did Natalia return from her parents’ home and choose to live in the Melekhovs’ house for the elderly? 2. What

1. Why did Natalia return from her parents’ home and choose to live in the Melekhovs’ house for the elderly?
2. What did the Cossacks keep hidden under their shirts?
3. Tell me about the Don Cossack hero Kryuchkov and his Georgievsky crosses for «military distinctions.»
4. How does Grigory Melekhov’s quarrel with Chubatyy over the captive Hungarian characterize the main character?
5. In a letter to his father, why did Captain Yevgeny Listnitsky explain his transfer to the active army?
6. What were the contents of the two letters that arrived from the army to the Melekhov family?
7. Why did «cold and tense relations» develop between the prospective in-laws, Panteleimon Melekhov and Miron Korshunov?
8. For what reason was Grigory promoted to a staff position and recommended for an award?
9. With what purpose did Natalia go to Yagodnoye to visit Aksinya? How did this visit end? What does this moment reveal about the heroines?
10. How does the incident in the hospital, or Grigory Melekhov’s «misstep» in the presence of the imperial family members, characterize the main character?
11. What gift did Grigory buy for Aksinya, and did he give it to her? What happened to Captain Yevgeny, whom Aksinya betrayed after her daughter’s death?
12. What leaflets appeared in the trenches among the soldiers?
13. For what reason did Valet release the captured Bavarian?
14. «A feud between Melekhov and Stepan Astakhov had erupted. Grigory Melekhov was destined to untangle this knot two years later in East Prussia, near the town of Stolypin.» How did this happen?
15. It was the third year of the war. What changed in the Melekhov family? What was the war like for Peter and Grigory?
16. What joy did Miron Grigoryevich Korshunov’s family experience, which he couldn’t wait to share with Grigory’s father when he visited for business?
17. What news spread through the hamlets and villages in March? How did the Cossacks react to this news?
18. What did Eugene Listnitsky reveal about the condition of the soldiers when he returned from the front?
19. What did the Don Ataman Kaledin read to the generals, and what spread across all Cossack lands after this?
20. Where was Bunchuk headed to with the 1st Don Division units?
21. According to Chikamassov, from which nations did Lenin «spring»?
22. The meeting of front-line soldiers — esaul Kalmykov and cornet Bunchuk.
23. How did the Cossacks deal with the detained deserters?
24. What was the year 1917 like for Grigory Melekhov: January, October, deep autumn?
25. The Cossacks «did not show much eagerness to fight the Bolsheviks.» Due to what? Part V, Chapter 3.
26. What did Bunchuk’s mother give him when he left for Rostov?
27. What mission did Bunchuk receive from the Revolutionary Committee, from his comrade Abramson? Which girl was sent to this detachment? Tell me what you know about this heroine.
28. What calls were made at the Cossack congress on January 10th in Kamensk? Part V, Chapter 8.
29. Crossing the Don and an old custom associated with Cossacks returning home after service. Part V, Chapter 10.
30. Why did Panteleimon Prokofievich take Grigory home from Millerovo right in the midst of the war for the Don?
31. What happened to Alexey Maksimovich Kaledin? Why?
32. Ilya Bunchuk’s «dirty work» at the Don Revkom. Express your opinion on this «work.»
33. For what reason did Valet and Mishka Koshevoy hurry to leave the hamlet? Part V, Chapter 22.
34. The Red Guard detachment in Setrakovo. Part V, Chapter 23.
35. Grigory was not chosen as the commander of the detachment at the meeting in the village. Why? Part V, Chapter 23.
36. The fate of Podtelkov and his detachment. Express your opinion about this hero.
37. Two forms of punishment at the military field court «in those days.» What punishment did Valet and Mishka Koshevoy, who were «caught» by the Cossacks, receive?