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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who chases after Lisa when she leaves Stavrogin's house?
(a) Peter.
(b) Liputin.
(c) Shatov.
(d) Stavrogin.

2. Who is on the stage when Karminazov goes to speak?
(a) Stepan Verkhovensky.
(b) Liputin.
(c) Captain Lebyatkin.
(d) Shatov.

3. What effect does the birth of Shatov's child have on him?
(a) It renews his faith in God.
(b) It fills him with forgiveness for his wife's infidelity.
(c) It fills him with dread for the world's sufferings.
(d) It renews his commitment to revolutionary ideals.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who alone knows the purpose of the meeting at Virginsky's house?

2. What does Shatov ask Kirilov for after he discovers that his wife is pregnant?

3. Why are workers from the Spigulin factory massing in the street?

4. What had some poor people done to prepare for the fête?

5. What is the narrator's response to Stepan Verkhovensky's reaction to the search of Peter's house?

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