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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 Aglaya ask Myshkin to do?
(a) Give her a photograph.
(b) Take her for a carriage ride.
(c) Give her a lock of hair.
(d) Write in her album.

2. How do the party guests decide what order to play the game?
(a) They volunteer to go next.
(b) They go around the table clockwise.
(c) They draw names from a hat.
(d) They go in alphabetical order according to name.

3. What does Madam Yephachin tell Myshkin to get for her?
(a) A jewel case from her bedroom.
(b) Her husband's accounting book.
(c) Nastassya Filippovna's photograph.
(d) The tea service from the kitchen.

4. What is Myshkin's reaction to Rogozhin's marriage proposal?
(a) Myshkin warns Nastassya against Rogozhin.
(b) Myshkin says he doesn't care if Nastassya marries Rogozhin.
(c) Myshkin also proposes to Nastassya.
(d) Myshkin encourages Nastassya to marry Rogozhin.

5. What is Myshkin's explanation for why Nastassya left Rogozhin?
(a) She wants more money than Rogozhin can give her.
(b) She can't abide the idea of marrying anyone.
(c) She is secretly in love with someone else.
(d) She can't deal with Rogozhin's paranoia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rogozhin give to Nastassya?

2. What illness does Prince Myshkin suffer from?

3. At the beginning of the first chapter, where are the men in the train traveling to?

4. What story does Ganja's father tell?

5. Who finally brings Myshkin to Nastassya's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ganja marrying Nastassya?

2. How does Ganja's father embarrass him?

3. How does Nastassya react to Rogozhin's offer of a present?

4. What is Myshkin and Rogozhin's initial meeting like, when Myshkin visits Rogozhin's house upon returning to St. Petersburg?

5. What happened to the man that Totsky wronged in his story?

6. How did Rogozhin become estranged from his father?

7. What reason does Yephanchin say he has to be guilty over someone's death?

8. What does Ferdyshchenko do with his ill-gotten gains?

9. What does Ferdyshchenko describe doing to make sure someone else is blamed for his own theft?

10. What does Yephanchin say that he did to make up for his guilty feelings?

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