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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 man that Mitya hurt in a bar?
(a) Smerdyakov.
(b) Captain Snegiryov.
(c) Ippolit.
(d) Rakitin.

2. How many times has Fyodor been married?
(a) 3 times.
(b) Once.
(c) 4 times.
(d) 2 times.

3. What does Mitya spout joyously in Book 3, Chapter 3?
(a) Poetry.
(b) A song.
(c) Quotes from the Bible.
(d) A story.

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

5. What do one of Katarina's maids give to Alyosha in Book 3, Chapter 10?
(a) An amulet.
(b) A sealed letter.
(c) A locket.
(d) A bag.

6. What is the name of Grushenka's maid?
(a) Marfa.
(b) Fenya.
(c) Katarina.
(d) Lizaveta.

7. What is the name of the woman who is insane and roamed about town in the book?
(a) Katarina.
(b) Grushenka.
(c) Marfa.
(d) Lizavetta.

8. 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) Kicks him.
(b) Punches him.
(c) Bites him.
(d) Slaps him.

9. What does Smerdyakov express opinions about in Book 3, Chapter 7?
(a) A girl named Maria.
(b) Religion and renouncing faith.
(c) His inheritance.
(d) Love.

10. What happens to the son of the man that Mitya hurt in a bar when he is at school?
(a) Ridiculed.
(b) Talked about.
(c) Beaten up.
(d) Laughed at.

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

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

13. What does the person who wrote Alyosha a letter at the end of Part 1 profess in the letter?
(a) Her hatred for Ivan.
(b) Her love for Mitya.
(c) Her hatred for him.
(d) Her love for him.

14. Whose lap does Grushenka sit on in Book 7, Chapter 2?
(a) Mitya's.
(b) Ilyusha's.
(c) Ivan's.
(d) Alyosha's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fyodor make the child that he has with Lizaveta?

2. Which of the following things is not at the party at the tavern where Mitya visits Grushenka?

3. What is the name of the monk who is an opponent of Zosima?

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

5. What is the name of the servant whose story is told in Book 3, Chapter 1?

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