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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who cries after Ilyusha's doctor leaves in Part 4, Book 10?
(a) The Captain.
(b) Kolya.
(c) Ilyusha.
(d) Alyosha.

2. What does Mitya agree to being guilty of at the beginning of his trial?
(a) A drunkard and scoundrel.
(b) A thief.
(c) A drunkard and thief.
(d) A murderer.

3. What does the defense do to each of the witnesses presented by the prosecution in an effective way?
(a) Making them cry.
(b) Damaging them.
(c) Refuting them.
(d) Making them appear stupid.

4. What does the audience say they believe should be the verdict in Mitya's trial while the jurors go into deliberation?
(a) Sentenced to life.
(b) Killed.
(c) Sentenced to a few years.
(d) Acquitted.

5. What does Lise smash in the door when Alyosha leaves from visiting her in Book 11?
(a) Alyosha's toe.
(b) Alyosha's finger.
(c) Her toe.
(d) Her finger.

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

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

8. Who becomes loud and angry and is warned by the judge to stay in bounds in Book 12, Chapter 14?
(a) Kirillovich.
(b) Makarov.
(c) Krassotkin.
(d) Fetyukovitch.

9. Who is Alyosha shocked to see that Katarina is in love with in the Epilogue?
(a) Ivan.
(b) Ippolit.
(c) Himself.
(d) Mitya.

10. Who does the prosecutor bring up the possibility of killing Fyodor, but dismisses it because of medical reasons?
(a) Katarina.
(b) Smerdyakov.
(c) Ivan.
(d) Grushenka.

11. What is the name of Kolya's dog?
(a) Maximov.
(b) Rakitin.
(c) Zhuchka.
(d) Marfa.

12. What does a town doctor say he remembers buying Mitya when he was a little boy during the trial?
(a) A napsack.
(b) A book.
(c) A pound of nuts.
(d) A handkerchief.

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

14. What does Lise say she is glad about seeing when Alyosha visits her in Book 11?
(a) Eating.
(b) Helping others.
(c) Hurting people.
(d) Having sex.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is not sympathetic to the prosecuting attorney when he objects the defense's final speech?

2. Who does Ivan go to see when he returns from Moscow in Book 11, Chapter 7?

3. How much money does Katarina say Mitya had loaned her family years ago during his trial?

4. What does Ivan want to know if Smerdyakov faked when he visits him in Book 11, Chapter 7?

5. Who confesses to Ivan that he killed Fyodor?

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