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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 does Katarina announce that she is going to devote her life to do in regards to Mitya in Book 5, Chapter 5?
(a) Make him happy.
(b) Make him a better man.
(c) Make him famous.
(d) Make him rich.

2. What is the name of the girl that Smerdyakov plays his instrument for?
(a) Marfa.
(b) Grushenka.
(c) Katarina.
(d) Maria.

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

4. What does Smerdyakov suffer in Book 5, Chapter 7?
(a) A fall.
(b) He is attacked.
(c) He breaks his foot.
(d) Epileptic fit.

5. What did Mitya do to the man that he hurt in the bar that Katarina is giving money to?
(a) Hit him.
(b) Hurt him.
(c) Cursed him.
(d) Shamed him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Alyosha run into after having lunch with Father Superior?

2. How much money does Katarina give to Alyosha to offer to a man whom Mitya had hurt?

3. Who does Alyosha read a letter from at the end of Part 1?

4. Whose lap does Grushenka sit on in Book 7, Chapter 2?

5. What do the monks speak of involving Madame Khokhlakov's daughter and children at the beginning of Part 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Mitya's actions at the beginning of Part 1, Book 3, Chapter 3?

3. What is the nature of Ivan and Smerdyakov's conversation in Part 2, Book 5, Chapter 6?

4. How does Fyodor act towards Stinking Lizavetta in Part 1, Book 3, Chapter 2?

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

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

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

8. How does Fyodor act while at the monastery to make himself endearing in Part 1, Book 2, Chapter 2?

9. How does Zosima appear when Alyosha visits him in Part 2, Book 6, Chapter 1?

10. What does Mitya do with his dueling pistols in Part 3, Book 8, Chapter 4?

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