In his work the artificial and the genuine are always exhibited in dramatic opposition: the supposedly great Napoleon and the truly great, unregarded little Captain Tushin, or Nicholas Rostov s actual experience in battle and his later account of it. The simple is always pitted against the elaborate, knowledge gained from observation against assertions of borrowed faiths. Tolstoi s magical simplicity is a product of these tensions; his work is a record of the questions he put to himself and of the answers he found in his search. The greatest characters of his fiction exemplify this search, and their happiness depends on the measure of their answers. Tolstoi wanted happiness, but only hard-won happiness, that emotional fulfillment and intellectual clarity which could come only as the prize of all-consuming effort. He scorned lesser satisfactions.
21. Which of the following best characterizes the author s attitude toward Tolstoi?
She deprecates the cynicism of his later works.
She finds his theatricality artificial.
She admires his wholehearted sincerity.
She thinks his inconsistency disturbing.
She respects his devotion to orthodoxy.
22. Which of the following best paraphrases Flaubert s statement quoted in lines 1-4?
Masterpiece seem ordinary and unremarkable from the perspective of a later age.
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