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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the monks speak of involving Madame Khokhlakov's daughter and children at the beginning of Part 2?
(a) A murder.
(b) An illness.
(c) A miracle.
(d) A tragedy.

2. Where do Fyodor and his friends find the insane woman who roamed about town in Book 3, Chapter 2?
(a) In a pub.
(b) In a boardinghouse.
(c) On the riverbank.
(d) On a curb.

3. What is the name of the monk who is an opponent of Zosima?
(a) Pytor.
(b) Ferapont.
(c) Mussyalovitch.
(d) Alyosha.

4. What is the neighborhood not able to tell about Smerdyakov based on his demeanor and appearance?
(a) What he is thinking.
(b) If he can talk.
(c) How he will act.
(d) What he will do.

5. Whose story is told in Book 3, Chapter 6?
(a) Alyosha.
(b) Ilyusha.
(c) Ivan.
(d) Smerdyakov.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fyodor make wild accusations against at the end of Book 2, Chapter 8?

2. What is the name of the woman who is insane and roamed about town in the book?

3. What is the name of the bar that Alyosha finds Mitya and Ivan meeting at in Part 2?

4. What profession does Fyodor hold?

5. What do Ivan and Fyodor become after Ivan comes home to confront him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rakitin tell Alyosha when he runs into him in Part 1, Book 2, Chapter 7?

2. What does Fyodor say he is afraid of regarding Grushenka in Part 2, Book 4, Chapter 2?

3. What does Mitya confess he did with the money Katarina gave to him in Part 1, Book 3, Chapter 5?

4. How does Mitya act when he arrives to see Grushenka at a tavern in Part 3, Book 8, Chapter 7?

5. How is Zosima's body described after he has died?

6. What is the nature of the poem Ivan says in Part 2, Book 5, Chapter 5?

7. Why does Mitya go to the local grocers in Part 3, Book 8, Chapter 5?

8. What is the nature of Alyosha's vision that he has while at Zosima's coffin?

9. What does Captain Sneigiryov and Alyosha talk about regarding the Captain's son in Part 2, Book 4, Chapter 6?

10. How are Katarina and Grushenka's actions towards each other described in Part 1, Book 3, Chapter 10?

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