2. Who does Peter leave Virginsky's house to meet?
(a) Lisa Tushin.
(b) His father.
(c) Kirilov and Stavrogin.
(d) Captain Lebyatkin.

3. What crime is Fedka implicated in?
(a) Arson.
(b) Treason.
(c) Murder.
(d) Theft.

4. What is the overall message of The Possessed?
(a) Conspiracy against the government is always fruitless.
(b) Russia is possessed with demons.
(c) Tyrannical monarchy will bring about its own downfall.
(d) Russia is in the hands of loving protectors like Stepan Verkhovensky.

5. What cover do the fifteen people use for gathering at Virginsky's house?
(a) They are there to help him move.
(b) They are there to help him through his illness.
(c) They are there to celerate the birth of his son.
(d) They are there to celebrate his birthday.

6. What kind of speech does Stepan Verkhovensky give?
(a) An attack on materialism.
(b) A defense of high culture.
(c) A jeremiad against the people themselves.
(d) A justification of revolutionary acts.

7. What happens to the swine in the story from Luke?
(a) They run wild and ruin the town after Jesus fills them with devils.
(b) They are disemboweled and scattered around the town after Jesus fills them with devils.
(c) They drown after Jesus fills them with devils.
(d) They are killed and eaten after Jesus fills them with devils.

8. What does Stavrogin want Fedka to do?
(a) Kill Mary and Captain Lebyatkin.
(b) Kill Shatov.
(c) Return to prison.
(d) Start a riot.

9. What kind of poem does Liputin read to the crowd?
(a) A pastoral idyll.
(b) A patriotic ode.
(c) An obscene farce.
(d) A call for revolution.

10. What does Stepan ask of the police during the search?
(a) He demands the name of the officer in charge.
(b) He asks for a more thorough search.
(c) He asks for immunity if he testifies against Peter.
(d) He asks for money as an inducement to help them.

11. What led to the release of the demons in Russia in the nineteenth century?
(a) The invention of the printing press.
(b) The invention of the railroad.
(c) Convulsions associated with modernization.
(d) The publication of Darwin's Origin of Species.

12. How long had Shatov's wife been gone before she returns?
(a) Three months.
(b) Three years.
(c) Three days.
(d) Three weeks.

13. Why is The Possessed an inaccurate transposition of the story of the swine in Luke?
(a) The devils reside in the human heart, and can never be cast out completely.
(b) The devils are more destructive in the story, and also more difficult to control.
(c) Russia's tumultuous revolution dwarfs the revolutionary action of the novel.
(d) The devils that haunt Russia are not as easy to cast out as Peter and his radicals.

14. How do the revolutionaries dispose of Shatov's body?
(a) They cut up his body and burn him.
(b) They throw him the river.
(c) They bury him in the woods.
(d) They tie rocks to his feet and throw his body in the pond.

15. Which revolutionary dissociates himself from murder as a strategy?
(a) Virginsky.
(b) Shatov.
(c) Peter Verkhovensky.
(d) Shigalyov.