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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who interrupts the funeral dinner?
(a) The police
(b) Luzhin
(c) Dunya
(d) Svidrigaylov

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

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

5. Why has Sonia waited for Raskolnikev the whole day?
(a) She thinks he is in danger of killing himself
(b) She loves him
(c) She knows he will confess
(d) She wants to runaway with him

6. What does Svidrigaylov say is the secret to seduction?
(a) Power
(b) Money
(c) A silver tongue
(d) Flattery

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

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

9. Who visits Raskolnikov in this chapter?
(a) Svidrigaylov
(b) Razumikhin
(c) Dunya
(d) Porfiry

10. Who does Raskolnikov spot in a restaurant?
(a) Svidrigaylov
(b) Razumikhin
(c) His mother
(d) Luzhin

11. What kind of guests turn up at the funeral?
(a) Lonely people
(b) Royalty
(c) Commoners
(d) Slovenly neighbors

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

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

14. Why does Sonia disappear for a while?
(a) She has to go back home
(b) She wants time on her own
(c) She falls sick
(d) She meets a new man

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Raskolnikov realize when Sonia disappears?

2. Who does Svidrigaylov think about in his hotel room?

3. Why does Raskolnikov want to visit Sonia?

4. Where does Svidrigaylov go after his meeting with his fiance?

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

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