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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the jury give as their judgment in Mitya's trial?
(a) Guilty of murder only.
(b) Guilty of theft only.
(c) Not guilty on every count.
(d) Guilty on every count.

2. What has Lise abandoned when Alyosha visits her in Book 11?
(a) Her clothes.
(b) Her wheelchair.
(c) Her bed.
(d) Her confines.

3. Whose oration does the audience applaud at the end of Mitya's trial?
(a) The defense attorney's.
(b) Mitya's.
(c) The judge's.
(d) The prosecutor's.

4. Who cries after Ilyusha's doctor leaves in Part 4, Book 10?
(a) Alyosha.
(b) Kolya.
(c) Ilyusha.
(d) The Captain.

5. Who does Kolya take his dog to go meet that was one of the boys throwing rocks at another boy?
(a) Rakitin.
(b) Marfa.
(c) Ippolit.
(d) Smurov.

6. Who does Alyosha go to meet in at the beginning of the Epilogue?
(a) Mitya.
(b) Ivan.
(c) Katarina.
(d) Grushenka.

7. What does Mitya cry out that Katarina has done to him after she testifies in his trial?
(a) Hurt him.
(b) Ruined him.
(c) Humored him.
(d) Made him happy.

8. How many days since Mitya's trial had it been at the beginning of the Epilogue?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

9. Where do police determine that Mitya should be taken back to and the investigation continued?
(a) St. Petersburgh.
(b) Chita.
(c) Moscow.
(d) The village.

10. Where is Mitya planning on escaping to after his trial?
(a) America.
(b) France.
(c) Portugal.
(d) Italy.

11. Who does Grushenka tell Alyosha that she believes Mitya has a secret with?
(a) Fyodor.
(b) Rakitin.
(c) Ivan.
(d) Katarina.

12. What does the prosecutor say the defense has only presented in Book 12, Chapter 14?
(a) Riddles.
(b) Songs.
(c) Poems.
(d) Quotes.

13. What does Lise tell Alyosha that she feels when she reads horrible things?
(a) Becomes sad.
(b) Cries.
(c) Takes pleasure in it.
(d) Becomes angry.

14. What does the defense lawyer introduce as a new point of contention in his final speech in regards to Fyodor's empty envelope?
(a) That there was no proof of money being in the envelope.
(b) Fyodor was a bad person.
(c) Fyodor wasn't rich.
(d) Mitya was in another city.

15. What is Grushenka's old Polish lover asking her for during Mitya's trial?
(a) Sex.
(b) Drink.
(c) Money.
(d) Food.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the defense lawyer plead with the jury that they consider as the murderer during his final speech in Mitya's trial?

2. Who tries to create doubt in the minds of the jurors in Book 12, Chapter 12?

3. How much money does Katarina say Mitya had loaned her family years ago during his trial?

4. How does the author describe Grushenka as being at the beginning of Book 11?

5. Who confesses to Ivan that he killed Fyodor?

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