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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose oration does the audience applaud at the end of Mitya's trial?
(a) Mitya's.
(b) The judge's.
(c) The prosecutor's.
(d) The defense attorney's.

2. What has Lise abandoned when Alyosha visits her in Book 11?
(a) Her clothes.
(b) Her wheelchair.
(c) Her bed.
(d) Her confines.

3. What does the prosecutor's speech appear to be to the peasants and Russians in the courtroom?
(a) Harmful.
(b) Rude.
(c) Mean.
(d) Condescending.

4. Who does Katarina say she has a newfound love for in Book 12, Chapter 6?
(a) Mitya.
(b) Pytor.
(c) Ivan.
(d) Alyosha.

5. What does Ivan present from his pocket during his testimony in Mitya's trial?
(a) 100 rubles.
(b) 3,000 rubles.
(c) 2,000 rubles.
(d) 500 rubles.

6. What is the name of the local district commissioner of Police that Pyotr visits?
(a) Mikhail Makarovich Kakarov.
(b) Kuzma Samsonov.
(c) Ilyusha Snegiryov.
(d) Michael Makarov.

7. Who is not sympathetic to the prosecuting attorney when he objects the defense's final speech?
(a) Mitya.
(b) The judge.
(c) The jury.
(d) The crowd.

8. Who is Alyosha planning to meet with to discuss Mitya's planned escape at the beginning of the Epilogue?
(a) Katarina.
(b) Grushenka.
(c) Rakitin.
(d) Ivan.

9. For how long does Mitya say he had been carrying around the money he received from Katarina during his interrogation?
(a) 3 weeks.
(b) A week.
(c) A month.
(d) 2 months.

10. Who does Kolya take his dog to go meet that was one of the boys throwing rocks at another boy?
(a) Smurov.
(b) Rakitin.
(c) Ippolit.
(d) Marfa.

11. Who is thrown out of the courtroom along with Katarina during Mitya's trial?
(a) Ivan.
(b) Marfa.
(c) Grushenka.
(d) Alyosha.

12. How does the author describe Grushenka as being at the beginning of Book 11?
(a) Insane.
(b) Ill.
(c) Angry.
(d) Sad.

13. Who takes the witness stand after Katarina in the book?
(a) Kuzma.
(b) Grushenka.
(c) Alyosha.
(d) Ivan.

14. Who does Alyosha go to meet in at the beginning of the Epilogue?
(a) Grushenka.
(b) Mitya.
(c) Katarina.
(d) Ivan.

15. Who goes to the witness stand in Mitya's trial after Alyosha?
(a) Ivan.
(b) Grushenka.
(c) Maximov.
(d) Katarina.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who becomes loud and angry and is warned by the judge to stay in bounds in Book 12, Chapter 14?

2. What illness is Illyusha suffering from?

3. Where do police determine that Mitya should be taken back to and the investigation continued?

4. What does Mitya claim he did not hit his father over the head with?

5. What does a town doctor say he remembers buying Mitya when he was a little boy during the trial?

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