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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what reason does Porfiry say he has come to see Raskolnikov?
(a) To get him to confess
(b) To apologize
(c) To arrest him
(d) To tell him a joke

2. Who does Svidrigaylov say tried to save him?
(a) Porfiry
(b) Sonia
(c) Mrs. Raskolnikov
(d) Dunya

3. Who comes to visit Raskolnikov at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) Porfiry
(b) Razumikhin
(c) Sonia
(d) Luzhin

4. What does Svidrigaylov give Sonia enough to do?
(a) To retire
(b) To buy a house
(c) Follow Raskolnikov to Siberia
(d) To look after her family

5. When does Raskolnikev come to visit Sonia?
(a) At sunset
(b) Midday
(c) Midnight
(d) At teatime

6. Who is Svidrigaylov secretly visiting?
(a) Sonia
(b) Profiry
(c) Dunya
(d) Luzhin

7. Who does Svidrigaylov think about in his hotel room?
(a) Dunya
(b) Sonia
(c) Profiry
(d) Raskolnikov

8. Who does Raskolnikov ask Sonia to make a choice between?
(a) Luzhin and himself
(b) Her stepmother and Luzhin
(c) God and the devil
(d) Putin and Tolstoy

9. Why does Raskolnikov want to visit Sonia?
(a) He want to ask her to marry him
(b) He want to plot to kill Luzhin
(c) He wants to give her money
(d) He wants to confess the murders

10. Whose heart does Razumikhin say Raskolnikov has broken?
(a) Sonia's
(b) His sister's
(c) His own heart
(d) His mother's

11. What does Sonia say is God's domain?
(a) Her own life
(b) Human relationships
(c) Murder
(d) Life and death

12. What does Raskolnikov ask his mother?
(a) If she will always love him
(b) If she will help him escape to America
(c) If she will confess for him
(d) If she kill him

13. What does Luzhin tell Sonia he will help her to get?
(a) A shop
(b) A dog
(c) A government pension
(d) A husband

14. How does Mrs. Marmaladov treat her guests?
(a) Like she does not know them
(b) With love and respect
(c) With vicious criticisms
(d) Like they are not there

15. Who does Dunya marry in St Petersburg?
(a) Razumikhin
(b) Svidrigaylov
(c) Prince Myskin
(d) Luzhin

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dunya say Raskolnikev's willingness to face suffering is a sign of?

2. What is Porfiry not satisfied with?

3. Who is the only person Mrs. Marmaladov talks to at the funeral dinner?

4. What does Svidrigaylov say is the secret to seduction?

5. What does Profiry say the murderer regards himself as?

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