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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. Who does Myshkin realize is the woman from his dream in the park?
(a) Nastassya.
(b) Aglaya.
(c) Ganja's mother.
(d) Madam Yephanchin.

2. What is Radomsky's view of liberalism?
(a) He thinks it's naive but admires it.
(b) He is in favor of it.
(c) He is opposed to it.
(d) He doesn't have an opinion.

3. Who wrote the article?
(a) Pavlishtchev.
(b) Keller.
(c) Hippolite.
(d) Ganja.

4. Who does General Ivolgin tell Myshkin he befriended as a young boy?
(a) Queen Victoria.
(b) Renoir.
(c) Napoleon.
(d) Beethoven.

5. What does Nastassya ask Myshkin?
(a) Whether he is happy.
(b) Whether he loves her.
(c) What he is thinking.
(d) When he is leaving.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hippolite do when Myshkin tells him to stop reading?

2. What other literary work does the phrase Aglaya said bring up?

3. Who wrote the note that Varya finds on Ganja's desk?

4. How does Aglaya claim Ganja proved his love for her?

5. Who tells Myshkin that an officer wants to duel him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do Myshkin and Agalya each interpret Myshkin's earlier letter to Agalya?

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

5. How does Myshkin feel, when he gets to Madam Yephanchin and is sitting at the table with Aglaya and the other guests?

6. What does Aglaya say to Myshkin, after her proposal to him?

7. What are Agalya's plans for herself and Myshkin when she first meets him in the park?

8. Why hasn't Myshkin visited the Yephanchins?

9. Why does Burdovsky feel he is owed something from Myshkin?

10. How does Madam Yephanchin react, after Burdovsky and his companions object to the information Ganja reveals about Burdovsky?

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