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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Madame Khokhlakov insist on talking with at the end of Book 4, Chapter 4?
(a) Katarina and Ivan.
(b) Mitya and Katarina.
(c) Ivan and Mitya.
(d) Lise and Alyosha.

2. Who does Alyosha read a letter from at the end of Part 1?
(a) Lise.
(b) Marfa.
(c) Katarina.
(d) Grushenka.

3. What begins to happen with the Elder's dead body much sooner than normal?
(a) Rots.
(b) Emits an odor.
(c) Glows.
(d) In hardens.

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

5. Where does Ivan say he is going to leave to go the next day in Book 4, Chapter 5?
(a) Magadan.
(b) Omsk.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Chita.

6. How much money does Katarina give to Alyosha to offer to a man whom Mitya had hurt?
(a) 200 rubles.
(b) 500 rubles.
(c) 300 rubles.
(d) 400 rubles.

7. What is the name of the bar that Alyosha finds Mitya and Ivan meeting at in Part 2?
(a) Blue Room.
(b) Metropolis.
(c) Brown Palace.
(d) San Caravel.

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

9. Who does Alyosha say he wishes would marry Katarina in Book 3, Chapter 5?
(a) Rakitin.
(b) Fyodor.
(c) Ivan.
(d) Pytor.

10. Who is also in love with Grushenka in the Karamazov family?
(a) Ivan.
(b) Fyodor.
(c) Alyosha.
(d) Zosima.

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

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

13. Who is waiting to have an audience with Zosima at the beginning of Book 2, Chapter 3?
(a) Lizavetta.
(b) Marfa.
(c) Madame Khokhlakov.
(d) Grushenka.

14. What is the name of Fyodor's son that he neglected shamefully?
(a) Mitya.
(b) Smerdyakov.
(c) Alyosha.
(d) Ivan.

15. Who stirs from his bed and realizes the garden gate to Fyodor's house is open in Part 3?
(a) Smerdyakov.
(b) Ivan.
(c) Grigory.
(d) Alyosha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the monks speak of involving Madame Khokhlakov's daughter and children at the beginning of Part 2?

2. Which person is not at the table with Grushenka when Mitya arrives at the tavern?

3. Who does Mitya believe has come and hidden in Fyodor's home in Book 3, Chapter 8?

4. After how many days after having his vision at Zosima's coffin does Alyosha leave the monastery?

5. What does Mitya spout joyously in Book 3, Chapter 3?

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