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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Biblical miracle does Alyosha envision at Zosima's coffin?
(a) Turning water to wine.
(b) Walking on water.
(c) Feeding the hungry.
(d) Baptizing someone.

2. Who does Mitya spend all of the money on that Katarina gave to him?
(a) Grushenka.
(b) Lizaveta.
(c) Anna.
(d) Marfa.

3. Who does Fyodor say is the only son he loves?
(a) Ivan.
(b) Smerdyakov.
(c) Alyosha.
(d) Mitya.

4. After how many days after having his vision at Zosima's coffin does Alyosha leave the monastery?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

5. Who has not arrived for the meeting with the Elder in Part 1, Book 2, Chapter 1?
(a) Alyosha.
(b) Mitya.
(c) Ivan.
(d) Fyodor.

6. What does Fyodor behave as during the meeting with Zosima?
(a) A gentleman.
(b) A buffoon.
(c) He laughs too loudly.
(d) He sleeps.

7. Who does Mitya sell his dueling pistols to?
(a) Ivan.
(b) Pyotr Illyich.
(c) Maximov.
(d) Grigory.

8. What is Alyosha deeply disturbed about that might happen to Zosima during the meeting with him and Fyodor?
(a) That he will be hurt.
(b) That he will be embarrassed.
(c) That Fyodor will kill him.
(d) That Fyodor will be late.

9. Who does Alyosha run into after having lunch with Father Superior?
(a) Makarov.
(b) Maximov.
(c) Rakitin.
(d) Ilyusha.

10. Who do Madame Khokhlakov and her daughter reveal they have come to visit in Book 2, Chapter 4?
(a) Alyosha.
(b) Ivan.
(c) Rakitin.
(d) Mitya.

11. What does Katarina announce that she is going to devote her life to do in regards to Mitya in Book 5, Chapter 5?
(a) Make him famous.
(b) Make him a better man.
(c) Make him rich.
(d) Make him happy.

12. Who does Alyosha leave his father looking for at the beginning of Book 4, Chapter 3?
(a) Smerdyakov.
(b) Ivan.
(c) Mitya.
(d) Ilyusha.

13. Where is the tavern Mitya arrives at in search of Grushenka?
(a) St. Petersburgh.
(b) Mokroye.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Chita.

14. Whose story is told in Book 3, Chapter 6?
(a) Smerdyakov.
(b) Ilyusha.
(c) Alyosha.
(d) Ivan.

15. What is the name of the baby Lizaveta and Fyodor have?
(a) Ippolit.
(b) Ivan.
(c) Smerdyakov.
(d) Alyosha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person who wrote Alyosha a letter at the end of Part 1 profess in the letter?

2. What does Lizaveta harm herself on that causes her to die?

3. How many boys does Alyosha see throwing rocks at another boy in the book?

4. What does Fyodor say is the reason he is babbling during the meeting with the Elder?

5. What instrument does Smerdyakov play in the book?

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