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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Ivan go to see when he returns from Moscow in Book 11, Chapter 7?
(a) Alyosha.
(b) Smerdyakov.
(c) Maximov.
(d) Mitya.

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

3. Where does Ilyusha's doctor say he must go in order to be saved from his illness?
(a) Florence.
(b) Rome.
(c) Paris.
(d) Sicily.

4. What does Mitya ask the court for in Book 12, Chapter 14?
(a) A guilty verdict.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Mercy.
(d) Help.

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

6. What does the prosecutor begin his final speech talking about in Mitya's trial?
(a) French society.
(b) Russian society.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The church.

7. How many days since Mitya's trial had it been at the beginning of the Epilogue?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

8. Who does Grushenka say Mitya is obsessed with that is causing them problems in Book 11?
(a) Lizaveta.
(b) Katarina.
(c) Fyodor.
(d) Marfa.

9. Who does Katarina show Alyosha a letter from in Book 11, Chapter 7?
(a) Smerdyakov.
(b) Ivan.
(c) Mitya.
(d) Fyodor.

10. Who does Ivan speak wildly about during his testimony in Mitya's trial?
(a) Jesus.
(b) The devil.
(c) Hitler.
(d) God.

11. What does the prosecutor suggest took over Mitya and caused him to kill his father?
(a) Mania.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Lust.

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

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

14. Who does Mitya believe he is being arrested for the murder of in Part 3?
(a) Alyosha.
(b) Grushenka.
(c) Grigory.
(d) Ivan.

15. What does Ivan begin raving about after hearing voices at the end of Book 11?
(a) God.
(b) The devil.
(c) A demon.
(d) Jesus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Mitya planning on escaping to after his trial?

2. What does Lise tell Alyosha that she feels when she reads horrible things?

3. What illness is Illyusha suffering from?

4. What is Grushenka's old Polish lover asking her for during Mitya's trial?

5. What does the defense attorney tell the jurors they are in charge of deciding in addition to the truth of Mitya's story?

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