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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Svidrigaylov's wife permit him to do?
(a) Holiday by himself
(b) Abuse her
(c) Have affairs with other women
(d) Play soccer

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

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

4. Who does Profiry say he suspects?
(a) Luzhin
(b) Razumikhin
(c) Sonia
(d) Raskolnikov

5. What does Profiry say the murderer regards himself as?
(a) An honest man
(b) A legendary lover
(c) God
(d) The devil incarnate

6. What has happened to Mrs. Marmaladov?
(a) She has dug up her husband
(b) She has gone mad and disppeared
(c) She has runaway to the Ukraine
(d) She has jumped off a bridge

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

8. How does Mrs. Marmaladov attempt to show Sonia's innocence?
(a) By asking her if she stole the money
(b) By calling the police
(c) By searching her
(d) By saying she has not left the room

9. How does Svidrigaylov say he flattered Dunya?
(a) By letting her think she had the power to change him
(b) By buying her gifts
(c) By telling her she was beautiful
(d) By taking her to fancy restaurants

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

11. Who does Raskolnikov think is the only person who has the courage to accept him?
(a) Profiry
(b) His mother
(c) Sonia
(d) Svidrigaylov

12. What information does Svidrigaylov share with Raskolnikov?
(a) Details about his marriage
(b) Details about his apartment
(c) Details about Dunya
(d) Details about how to cook goulash

13. What does Svidrigaylov fear?
(a) Marriage
(b) Madness
(c) Death
(d) Spiders

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

15. How much money does Sonia return?
(a) 8 rubles
(b) 1 ruble
(c) 10 rubles
(d) 50 rubles

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Raskolnikov realize when Sonia disappears?

2. What kind of women was Svidrigaylov not allowed to have affairs with?

3. Where does Svidrigaylov go after his meeting with Sonia?

4. What does Raskolnikov see Svidrigaylov doing?

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

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