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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. Where does Myshkin recuperate from his seizure?
(a) Lebedev's villa.
(b) Ganja's boarding house.
(c) Rogozhin's house.
(d) The Yephanchin's house.

2. Nastassya has written Aglaya several letters that Aglaya shows Myshkin. What do these letters ask Aglaya to do?
(a) Steal a cross from Myshkin.
(b) Marry Myshkin.
(c) Stay away from Myshkin.
(d) Give Nastassya money.

3. After Myshkin returns to the Yephanchins' house, following the walk in the park and the fight, what does Aglaya show Myshkin how to do?
(a) Sharpen a knife.
(b) Load a gun.
(c) Carve a whistle.
(d) Sew a button.

4. Who does Madam Yephanchin wonder if Aglaya is seriously interested in, at the beginning of Part III?
(a) Myshkin and Ganja.
(b) Radomsky and Rogozhin.
(c) Ganja and Radomsky.
(d) Rogozhin and Myskin.

5. When Radomsky asks for Myshkin's friendship, what is Myshkin's response?
(a) Myshkin immediately denies his friendship.
(b) Myshkin offers his friendship, and then changes his mind.
(c) Myshkin immediately offers his friendship.
(d) Myshkin denies his friendship, and then changes his mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Myshkin believe Lebedev's story about finding the money?

2. How much money is Lebedev missing?

3. What is Radomsky's view of liberalism?

4. What illness does Hippolite have?

5. What does Myshkin do while he is waiting for Aglaya on the park bench?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why hasn't Myshkin visited the Yephanchins?

2. How would Myshkin probably act, if he were in Lebedev's place in the disagreement between Lebedev and General Ivolgin?

3. How does Myshkin learn that Nastassya is in town?

4. How does Aglaya react to winning and losing at games?

5. What does Ganja report about Burdovsky's relationship with Pavlishtchev?

6. How does Myshkin answer Nastassya's question to him, and what is Rogozhin's response?

7. Why does Hippolite want to kill himself?

8. What leads up to the violence in the park?

9. How do the guests at the Yephanchins' react to Myshkin's response to Radomsky's political views?

10. What does Madam Yephanchin think about, as she brings Myshkin to her house?

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