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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. What does Mrs. Stavrogin ask her son when he arrives?
(a) Whether he is leaving her all alone.
(b) Whether he is married to Mary Lebyatkin.
(c) Whether he has any new gambling debts.
(d) Whether he has fought a duel.

2. What would normally happen to youth who behave as these youth are behaving?
(a) They would be rewarded with status in the church.
(b) They would work for the candidate who won.
(c) They would be sacrificed for the country in war.
(d) They would be sent to Siberia.

3. How many paces separate the two duelists?
(a) 30.
(b) 20
(c) 12.
(d) 24.

4. Who is Shatov?
(a) A local doctor.
(b) A banker from Moscow.
(c) A local official.
(d) A former student of Verkhovensky's.

5. What event results in an investigation that discovers radical literature?
(a) A flood in a mine.
(b) The publication of a radical poem.
(c) An attack on a general's wife.
(d) A cholera outbreak at a factory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Mrs. Lembke befriend?

2. What is Stepan and Peter Verkhovensky's relationship like?

3. What is Stepan Verkhovensky agitated about at the beginning of Chapter 3?

4. How many previous marriages has Stepan Verkhovensky had?

5. What do we learn from Stavrogin's confrontation with Shatov?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Stepan Verhovensky feel about Verkhovensky's marriage to Dasha?

2. What do we know about the poem, A Noble Character?

3. How are Stavrogin and Lisa getting along the morning after the night they spent together?

4. What happens to Stepan at the inn?

5. How does Stepan Verkhovensky react to having his house raided?

6. What does Peter tell us about Nicholas Stavrogin's relationship with Miss Lebyatkin?

7. What effect do Julia Lembke's political activities have on Mr. Lembke?

8. What is the purpose of the gathering at Mr. Virginsky's house?

9. What does Mrs. Stavrogin suggest as a result of her sense that she is getting older?

10. What has Shatov's state of mind been like since the confrontation, during which he struck Stavrogin?

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