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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Ganja give for wanting Myshkin as a friend?
(a) That Myshkin is fun to listen to.
(b) That he needs someone like Myshkin to believe in his goodness.
(c) That he wants to keep an eye on Myshkin, who he doesn't trust.
(d) That scoundrels need honest men.

2. Who does the General suggest should marry Nastassya Filippovna?
(a) His assistant Ganja.
(b) Rogozhin.
(c) Totsky.
(d) Prince Myshkin.

3. How does the General describe the Prince to his wife?
(a) As a pleasant, interesting man.
(b) As a happy-go-lucky, carefree man.
(c) As a very strange, unnatural man.
(d) As a very ill and incapacitated man.

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

5. What is General Yephanchin's initial response to the Prince's request for help?
(a) He immediately offers the Prince room and board for as long as he needs it.
(b) He immediately offers the Prince a job.
(c) He immediately offers the Prince temporary room and board.
(d) He says at first that he can't help the Prince.

6. How much money does Rogozhin offer for Nastassya's hand in marriage?
(a) 100,000 roubles.
(b) 500,000 roubles.
(c) 250,000 roubles.
(d) 50,000 roubles.

7. What does Madam Yephanchin think her husband is doing behind her back?
(a) Arranging a trip.
(b) Buying property.
(c) Starting a business.
(d) Arranging marriages.

8. What does Ganja do when Madam Yephanchin confronts him about what she suspects her husband is doing behind her back?
(a) He promises to search her husband's papers for any evidence.
(b) He says that he shares her suspicions but doesn't know for a fact it's true.
(c) He denies any knowledge of it.
(d) He admits that she is right.

9. How does the party in general react to Rogozhin's arrival?
(a) People avoid Rogozhin from embarrassment.
(b) People make fun of Rogozhin for entertainment.
(c) The party is disgusted but interested in him.
(d) The party is happy to see him.

10. What story does Ganja's father tell?
(a) A story about a glorious victory in battle.
(b) A story about Ganja's birth under an auspicious sign.
(c) A story about the beginning of a rift with the Yephanchin family.
(d) A story about meeting Ganja's mother.

11. What does Nastassya do with Rogozhin's money?
(a) She gives it to Myshkin.
(b) She throws it into the street.
(c) She tears it up.
(d) She throws it in the fire.

12. Whose death does Yephanchin tell a story about?
(a) His sister.
(b) His mother.
(c) His landlady.
(d) His schoolteacher.

13. Where does Ganja live?
(a) Alone in a small house.
(b) In his family's boarding house.
(c) In a cottage on a large estate.
(d) In a room in an old woman's house.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Myshkin's explanation for why Nastassya left Rogozhin?

2. How does Myshkin react when Ganja calls him an idiot?

3. In what country was the hospital located where Prince Myshkin stayed?

4. What do Rogozhin and Myshkin exchange with each other?

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

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