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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stepan ask of the police during the search?

2. What does Stavrogin look for and not find in the final chapters?

3. The first chapter of Part 3 is set the day after what?

4. Why does Lisa want to leave Stavrogin at the beginning of the Part 3, Chapter 3?

5. How long had Shatov's wife been gone before she returns?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is the duel between Gaganov and Stavrogin a metaphor for the book? Is the murder of Captain and Mary Lebyatkin a better metaphor? What event in the book is most representative of the book as a whole?

Essay Topic 2

Following the allegory of the swine from Luke, are the demons cast out of the society of the novel? Are they cast out of Russian society by Dostoevsky's novel?

Essay Topic 3

What is the moral of The Possessed? Is conversion to Christianity a real solution to the problems the book presents? Is there a difference between the social problems the book presents us with and the problems of individual morality that the characters face?

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