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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 Mitya tell Alyosha that he did to Katarina's family to get her to marry him?
(a) Forced them.
(b) Bribed them.
(c) Tricked them.
(d) Blackmailed them.

2. Who does Mitya go to see at the beginning of Book 8, Chapter 2?
(a) Grigory.
(b) Lyagavy.
(c) Rakitin.
(d) Maximov.

3. What does Fyodor behave as during the meeting with Zosima?
(a) He laughs too loudly.
(b) A buffoon.
(c) He sleeps.
(d) A gentleman.

4. Who peeks through a door and looks at Alyosha in Book 4, Chapter 4?
(a) Lise.
(b) Lizaveta.
(c) Katarina.
(d) Marfa.

5. Who does Alyosha read a letter from at the end of Part 1?
(a) Lise.
(b) Marfa.
(c) Grushenka.
(d) Katarina.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Mitya's fiancé that he is abandoning for another woman?

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

3. Who does Fyodor ask about when he awakes in Book 3, Chapter 9?

4. What does Fyodor make the child that he has with Lizaveta?

5. What does Smerdyakov suffer in Book 5, Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Alyosha witness between a group of boys in Part 2, Book 4, Chapter 3?

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

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

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

5. How are Fyodor's actions described after the death of his second wife at the beginning of the book?

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

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

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

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

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

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