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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Radomsky's view of liberalism?
2. Why does Hippolite realize, after seeing Rogozhin in his room at night, that Rogozhin couldn't have been there?
3. Who comes in Hippolite's dream, when he calls for help?
4. Who tells Myshkin that the duel with the officer has been called off?
5. Who does Aglaya tell her mother she is going to marry, when Madam Yephanchin interrupts Aglaya and Myshkin's meeting in the park?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why hasn't Myshkin visited the Yephanchins?
2. How does Myshkin treat Rogozhin, after Rogozhin tried to kill him?
3. Why does Hippolite want to kill himself?
4. What are Agalya's plans for herself and Myshkin when she first meets him in the park?
5. What does Aglaya say to Myshkin, after her proposal to him?
6. What does Ganja report about Burdovsky's relationship with Pavlishtchev?
7. How does Myshkin contradict what Aglaya has told him about Ganja?
8. How does Myshkin feel, when he gets to Madam Yephanchin and is sitting at the table with Aglaya and the other guests?
9. What does Madam Yephanchin feel about her daughter's relationship with Myshkin?
10. How does General Ivolgin act when he talks to Myshkin after his argument with Lebedev?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the society depicted in the novel, marriage is an important institution. The characters try to arrange marriages for themselves and for others. Discuss marriage in the novel.
1) How do the characters choose who they want to marry? How does Myshkin decide first to marry Aglaya and then Nastassya? How does Nastassya determine to marry Myshkin, and then run off with Rogozhin?
2) How do family members influence marriage? How do Aglaya's parents think of their daughter's marriage? What influence do they have on her marriage?
3) How does society view marriage? What relation does money and social position have to marriage? Does society influence the marriage choices that the characters make?
Essay Topic 2
The novel centers around the characters' love relationships. Discuss love in the novel.
1) What causes characters to fall in love with each other in the novel? How can the characters, and the reader, distinguish between true love and different kinds of attraction in the novel?
2) What role does jealousy play in the characters' love relationships? What role does the characters' ideas of their self-worth play in their attraction to others?
3) What role does social position and money play in the characters' love relationships?
Essay Topic 3
Much of the action in the novel happens at parties and social gatherings. Discuss the importance of parties and social gatherings in the novel.
1) Why does so much of the action of the novel take place at parties and social gatherings? How do the characters react differently in these social situations, than in private?
2) What role do parties and social gatherings fulfill in the culture of St. Petersburg? How do they affect the social relationships and social order of the characters?
3) How are events at parties and social gatherings reviewed and critiqued by the people attending the gatherings? How does this change the consequences of those events, which are witnessed by groups of people?
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