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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Svidrigaylov give for observing Raskolnikov?
(a) Loneliness
(b) Boredom
(c) Hate
(d) Love

2. Who does Raskolnikov meet back at his old room?
(a) Svidrigaylov
(b) Sonia
(c) Profiry
(d) Dunya

3. Whose funeral is taking place in chapter 1?
(a) Mrs. Marmaladov's
(b) Svidrigaylov's
(c) Luzhin's
(d) Sonia's

4. What is the name of Luzhin's younger roommate?
(a) Marat
(b) Lebezyatnikov
(c) Andre
(d) Turgenov

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

6. Why does Raskolnikov threaten to kill Svidrigaylov?
(a) He is worried he will go to the police
(b) He is worried he won't give him the money he promised
(c) He is woried he will blackmail Dunya
(d) He is worried he is after Sonia

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

8. Who comes to visit Raskolnikov in his room?
(a) Mrs. Marmaladov
(b) His mother
(c) His sister
(d) Luzhin

9. What does Mrs Marmaladov find in her daughter's pockets?
(a) A banana skin
(b) Nothing
(c) A 100 ruble note
(d) A pocket watch

10. What does Raskolnikov worry about?
(a) Porfiry will trick him into a confession
(b) That he will contradict himself
(c) That he will sweat under questionning
(d) That Porfiry knows everything

11. Why does Raskolnikev not see his act as a crime?
(a) Because he was mad
(b) Because he was poor
(c) Because many men have killed in war
(d) Because the old lady was a bad person

12. What does Luzhin skip the funeral to do?
(a) Grab a pizza
(b) Plan how to go get back at Raskonikov
(c) Count his money
(d) See Dunya

13. Where does Sonia stay?
(a) At the train station
(b) A nearby village
(c) In a nearby city
(d) In the prison camp

14. Who does Luzhin point to as his witness?
(a) Raskolnikov
(b) Lebezyatnikov
(c) Mrs. Marmaladov
(d) God

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Svidrigaylov say is his main interest>

2. What does Svidrigaylov prove to Dunya?

3. What does Mrs. Marmaladov spend half of Raskolnikov's twenty rubles on?

4. Where does Raskolnikov go to when Sonia leaves?

5. Who does Raskolnikov think is the only person who has the courage to accept him?

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