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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 3, Another Man's Sins and Chapter 4, The Cripple.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Verkhovensky ashamed of?
(a) He is ashamed of Mrs. Stavrogin's control over his liberty.
(b) He is ashamed of being asked to marry Dasha to hide her past.
(c) He is ashamed of his students' mediocre performance at university.
(d) He is ashamed of Dasha's ignorance and lack of good sense.

2. What is Stepan Verkhovensky agitated about at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Marriage to Dasha.
(b) His father's return.
(c) His wife's pregnancy.
(d) His son's debts.

3. What is Stepan Verkhovensky's employment?
(a) He tutors Mrs. Stavrogin's son.
(b) He is an elected official.
(c) He is a social researcher.
(d) He is a local bureaucrat.

4. Who is Lisa Tushin?
(a) A neighbor of Mrs. Stavrogin's.
(b) A schoolmistress in St. Petersburg.
(c) A seamstress.
(d) A woman who had a relationship with Nicholas.

5. Who is Virginsky?
(a) A local official.
(b) A student of Verkhovensky's.
(c) A radical agitator.
(d) A professor at the university.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is The Possessed set?

2. How does Nicholas Stavrogin kill a man?

3. Who is Kirilov?

4. What is Stepan Verkhovensky's relationship with Mrs. Stavrogin?

5. Who is Shatov?

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