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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zosima say is the only thing that prevents someone from committing a crime in Book 2, Chapter 5?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Russia.
(c) Christ's law.
(d) A conscience.

2. What is the name of the woman who Mitya is leaving his fiancé for?
(a) Lizaveta.
(b) Marfa.
(c) Grushenka.
(d) Katarina.

3. What is the name of the monk who is an opponent of Zosima?
(a) Alyosha.
(b) Pytor.
(c) Ferapont.
(d) Mussyalovitch.

4. What happens to the son of the man that Mitya hurt in a bar when he is at school?
(a) Talked about.
(b) Ridiculed.
(c) Laughed at.
(d) Beaten up.

5. What Biblical miracle does Alyosha envision at Zosima's coffin?
(a) Turning water to wine.
(b) Walking on water.
(c) Feeding the hungry.
(d) Baptizing someone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession does Fyodor hold?

2. Who does Mitya go to see at the beginning of Book 8, Chapter 2?

3. Who does Fyodor ask about when he awakes in Book 3, Chapter 9?

4. What begins to happen with the Elder's dead body much sooner than normal?

5. What is the first name of the father of the Karamazov family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the child Stinking Lizavetta in Part 1, Book 3, Chapter 2?

2. How does Zosima appear when Alyosha visits him in Part 2, Book 6, Chapter 1?

3. What is Alyosha deeply disturbed by regarding his meeting with Zosima in Part 1, Book 2, Chapter 1?

4. What does Fyodor say he is afraid of regarding Grushenka in Part 2, Book 4, Chapter 2?

5. How is Ivan's mental capacity described in Part 1, Book 1, Chapter 3?

6. What is the nature of Alyosha's vision that he has while at Zosima's coffin?

7. What does Mitya confess he did with the money Katarina gave to him in Part 1, Book 3, Chapter 5?

8. Why does Mitya go to the local grocers in Part 3, Book 8, Chapter 5?

9. What does Alyosha witness between a group of boys in Part 2, Book 4, Chapter 3?

10. How does Fyodor act while at the monastery to make himself endearing in Part 1, Book 2, Chapter 2?

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