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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 Kirillovich begin quoting from during Mitya's trial in Book 12, Chapter 14?
(a) A law book.
(b) A book of poems.
(c) The Bible.
(d) A history book.

2. What has Lise abandoned when Alyosha visits her in Book 11?
(a) Her clothes.
(b) Her wheelchair.
(c) Her bed.
(d) Her confines.

3. Who takes the witness stand after Katarina in the book?
(a) Ivan.
(b) Grushenka.
(c) Alyosha.
(d) Kuzma.

4. Who does the prosecutor bring up the possibility of killing Fyodor, but dismisses it because of medical reasons?
(a) Katarina.
(b) Smerdyakov.
(c) Ivan.
(d) Grushenka.

5. Who does Katarina say she has a newfound love for in Book 12, Chapter 6?
(a) Pytor.
(b) Alyosha.
(c) Ivan.
(d) Mitya.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the person who killed Fyodor say he did it for?

2. How does the author describe Grushenka as being at the beginning of Book 11?

3. Who is Alyosha shocked to see that Katarina is in love with in the Epilogue?

4. What does the defense do to each of the witnesses presented by the prosecution in an effective way?

5. How many days since Mitya's trial had it been at the beginning of the Epilogue?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the nature of Alyosha and Grushenka's discussion in Part 4, Book 11, Chapter 1?

2. How is Alyosha and Kolya's first interaction described?

3. How does the audience react while the jurors go into deliberation in Mitya's trial?

4. What points of contention does the defense lawyer introduce in Part 4, Book 12, Chapter 11?

5. What is the nature of the discussion between Ivan and Smerdyakov in Part 4, Book 11, Chapter 6?

6. What is the nature of the voices Ivan hears in Part 4, Book 11, Chapter 9?

7. What does Alyosha discover about a secret between Mitya and Ivan in Part 4, Book 11, Chapter 4?

8. Why does the court refute the possibility of Smerdyakov killing Fyodor in Part 4, Book 12, Chapter 9?

9. What is the nature of Ivan's testimony in Mitya's trial?

10. How does Mitya react when the police make him take off his clothes for examination?

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