View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Chapter 3, The End of a Love Affair and Chapter 4, The Last Decision.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does the narrator have for visiting Lembke?
(a) He wants to arrange to get out of the country.
(b) He wants to testify against Peter Verkhovensky.
(c) He wants to know why he is being searched.
(d) He wants to prevent Stepan Verkhovensky from doing anything silly.

2. Who is on his way to visit at the end of the second chapter?
(a) Verkhovensky's son.
(b) Shatov's father.
(c) Stavrogin's father.
(d) Verkhovensky's father.

3. How does Stavrogin respond to Kirilov's belief?
(a) He is convinced and converted to Kirilov's views.
(b) He debates Kirilov at length, because he things his belief is missing key points.
(c) He condescends to Kirilov, and treats him like a child.
(d) He is ironic and disbelieving.

4. Where do Lisa and the man she meets rush off to after they meet?
(a) They go to Lembke's.
(b) They go to see the people who were murdered.
(c) They go to Mrs. Stavrogin's.
(d) They go to Shatov's.

5. Why does Lisa want to leave Stavrogin at the beginning of the Part 3, Chapter 3?
(a) They have begun to quarrel.
(b) Stavrogin confessed to killing Mary.
(c) She wanted to report his murder to the police.
(d) Stavrogin told her he didn't love her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have Liputin and Fedka been doing at the Spigulin factory?

2. What condition does Mrs. Lembke impose on people who want to come to her party?

3. Who arrives when Peter has just finished relating the story of Nicholas' devotion to Miss Lebyatkin?

4. Whom does Stavrogin defend from Peter?

5. Why is Peter intent on killing Shatov?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 323 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample