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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 is the name of the bar that Alyosha finds Mitya and Ivan meeting at in Part 2?
(a) Brown Palace.
(b) Metropolis.
(c) San Caravel.
(d) Blue Room.

2. Who does Mitya sell his dueling pistols to?
(a) Ivan.
(b) Maximov.
(c) Grigory.
(d) Pyotr Illyich.

3. Who does Mitya spend all of the money on that Katarina gave to him?
(a) Lizaveta.
(b) Marfa.
(c) Grushenka.
(d) Anna.

4. What is the name of Grushenka's maid?
(a) Fenya.
(b) Lizaveta.
(c) Katarina.
(d) Marfa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument does Smerdyakov play in the book?

2. What did Mitya do to the man that he hurt in the bar that Katarina is giving money to?

3. What does Katarina announce that she is going to devote her life to do in regards to Mitya in Book 5, Chapter 5?

4. What does Fyodor begin a life of after the death of his last wife?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Fyodor react when he learns Alyosha wishes to enter the monastery?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How is Smerdyakov described in Part 1, Book 3, Chapter 6?

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

(see the answer keys)

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