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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. Who do Madame Khokhlakov and her daughter reveal they have come to visit in Book 2, Chapter 4?
(a) Mitya.
(b) Ivan.
(c) Rakitin.
(d) Alyosha.

2. How many times has Fyodor been married?
(a) 4 times.
(b) 3 times.
(c) Once.
(d) 2 times.

3. After how many days after having his vision at Zosima's coffin does Alyosha leave the monastery?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

5. What is the name of Mitya's fiancé that he is abandoning for another woman?
(a) Lizaveta.
(b) Katarina.
(c) Marfa.
(d) Grushenka.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stirs from his bed and realizes the garden gate to Fyodor's house is open in Part 3?

2. Where is Ivan supposed to close a deal for his father in Book 5, Chapter 7?

3. What is Alyosha deeply disturbed about that might happen to Zosima during the meeting with him and Fyodor?

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

5. What is the person who is an opponent of Zosima, which makes the other monks tend to believe him more?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Alyosha deeply disturbed by regarding his meeting with Zosima in Part 1, Book 2, Chapter 1?

2. Why does Mitya burst into the house in Part 1, Book 3, Chapter 9?

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

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

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

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

7. What is the nature of Fyodor's accusations at the end of Part 1, Book 2, Chapter 8?

8. What does Zosima say in regards to the separation of church and state in Part 1, Book 2, Chapter 5?

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

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

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