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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is Ivan supposed to close a deal for his father in Book 5, Chapter 7?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Magadan.
(c) St. Petersburgh.
(d) Chermashnya.

3. Where do Fyodor and his friends find the insane woman who roamed about town in Book 3, Chapter 2?
(a) In a boardinghouse.
(b) On the riverbank.
(c) On a curb.
(d) In a pub.

4. Who peeks through a door and looks at Alyosha in Book 4, Chapter 4?
(a) Marfa.
(b) Lizaveta.
(c) Lise.
(d) Katarina.

5. What do Katarina and Grushenka act like when Alyosha visits them in Part 1?
(a) Acquaintances.
(b) Old friends.
(c) Enemies.
(d) Lovers.

6. What does the boy that had rocks thrown at him by a group of boys do to Alyosha after he stops them from beating him up?
(a) Punches him.
(b) Bites him.
(c) Slaps him.
(d) Kicks him.

7. Who does Mitya hit first after smashing through the house in Book 3, Chapter 9?
(a) Fyodor.
(b) Rakitin.
(c) Grigory.
(d) Ivan.

8. What does Mitya tell Alyosha that he did to Katarina's family to get her to marry him?
(a) Tricked them.
(b) Forced them.
(c) Bribed them.
(d) Blackmailed them.

9. How old is Zosima the Elder?
(a) 65.
(b) 70.
(c) 50.
(d) 55.

10. What is the name of the girl that Smerdyakov plays his instrument for?
(a) Grushenka.
(b) Marfa.
(c) Maria.
(d) Katarina.

11. Who does Mitya go to see at the beginning of Book 8, Chapter 2?
(a) Maximov.
(b) Rakitin.
(c) Lyagavy.
(d) Grigory.

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

13. What is the name of Mitya's fiancé that he is abandoning for another woman?
(a) Katarina.
(b) Lizaveta.
(c) Marfa.
(d) Grushenka.

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

15. What does Madame Khokhlakov tell Mitya that she has in mind for him to do that will make him a great man in Part 3?
(a) Work on the railroad.
(b) Find gold mines.
(c) Run a shop.
(d) Build houses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has not arrived for the meeting with the Elder in Part 1, Book 2, Chapter 1?

2. What happens to the son of the man that Mitya hurt in a bar when he is at school?

3. Who does Fyodor ask about when he awakes in Book 3, Chapter 9?

4. Who does Alyosha leave his father looking for at the beginning of Book 4, Chapter 3?

5. What is the name of the woman who Mitya is leaving his fiancé for?

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