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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Myshkin learn about Nastassya's engagement to Rogozhin?
(a) Nastassya is rumored to have run off with Rogozhin without marrying him.
(b) Nastassya is rumored to have married Rogozhin and then left him a week later.
(c) Nastassya is rumored to have left Rogozhin on their wedding day.
(d) Nastassya is rumored to have married Rogozhin and left the country with him.

2. Whose house does Myshkin go to when he first arrives back in St. Petersburg?
(a) Lebedev's house.
(b) Ganja's house.
(c) Rogozhin's house.
(d) The Yephanchins' house.

3. How much money is Myshkin about to inherit?
(a) 70,000,000 roubles.
(b) 10,000,000 roubles.
(c) 50,000,000 roubles.
(d) 100,000,000 roubles.

4. What does Nastassya say about Myshkin after his proposal?
(a) She says he only pretends to be an idiot.
(b) She says he is an idiot.
(c) She says he is not an idiot afterall.
(d) She says at least he is a rich idiot.

5. Has Nastassya met Ganja's family before her arrival on Myshkin's first night there?
(a) No, it is their first meeting.
(b) No, and the family leaves before Nastassya arrives.
(c) Yes, she has met them once.
(d) Yes, she has met them numerous times.

6. What skill does the Prince tell the General that he has?
(a) Architectural drafting.
(b) Cartography.
(c) Caricature.
(d) Calligraphy.

7. How long ago did Totsky take in Nastassya as his ward?
(a) Twelve years.
(b) Eighteen years.
(c) Twenty-four years.
(d) Seven years.

8. Who gets fired in Ferdyshchenko's story?
(a) A clerk at a shop.
(b) A servant.
(c) Ferdyshchenko's brother.
(d) Ferdyshchenko.

9. What does Rogozhin say his reason is for traveling to Russia?
(a) To be married.
(b) To take over a business.
(c) To find a lost relative.
(d) To collect an inheritance.

10. What happens to Ganja, after Nastassya gives up Rogozhin's money?
(a) He runs out of the house.
(b) He screams uncontrollably.
(c) He faints.
(d) He hits his head, knocking himself unconscious.

11. What does Myshkin pick up without thinking about it, while he is talking to Rogozhin?
(a) A lighter.
(b) A gun.
(c) A rope.
(d) A knife.

12. Who runs after Nastassya and Rogozhin when they leave?
(a) Myshkin.
(b) Yephanchin.
(c) Ganja.
(d) Totsky.

13. Who gives Aglaya a letter from Myshkin?
(a) Nastassya.
(b) Varya.
(c) Koyla.
(d) Ganja.

14. Who does Nastassya expect to try to get the money?
(a) Totsky.
(b) Yephanchin.
(c) Ganja.
(d) Ferdyshchenko.

15. Who does the General offer Totsky to marry?
(a) His daugher Alexandra.
(b) His daughter Adelaida.
(c) His daughter Aglaya.
(d) Nastassya Filippovna.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many daughters do the Yephanchins have?

2. What does Ganja do when Madam Yephanchin confronts him about what she suspects her husband is doing behind her back?

3. What does Nastassya do with Rogozhin's money?

4. What does Aglaya ask Myshkin to read?

5. Who is at the door at Ganja's home, when Myshkin answers it?

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