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

2. What do Sonia and Raskolnikov think love can do to them?
(a) Give them children
(b) Make them respectable
(c) Make them happy
(d) Redeem them

3. What happens when Raskolnikov looks into Sonia's eyes?
(a) He feels close to her again
(b) He asks her to marry him
(c) He tries to kill her
(d) He sees the devil

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

5. Who is the only person Mrs. Marmaladov talks to at the funeral dinner?
(a) Mrs. Raskolnikov
(b) Raskolnikov
(c) Luzhin
(d) Profiry

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Dunya ask to see?

2. Who comes to visit Raskolnikov in his room?

3. Why is Sonia disturbed by Raskolnikev's attitude?

4. What information does Svidrigaylov share with Raskolnikov?

5. Who does Rasknikov visit at the beginning of the chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Luzhin sets up Sonia?

2. Why do you think Luzhin is so angry at Raskolnikov?

3. Why is making a public confession so difficult for Raskolnikov?

4. How does Dostoevsky still create suspense even as he winds down his story?

5. In what way does Dostoevsky show Dunya to be different to her brother?

6. In what ways does Porfiry show what perceptive detective he is?

7. How does Dostoevsky portray Raskolnikov's conflicting emotions in chapter four?

8. Do you think Svidrigaylov and Raskolnikov's confession is the miracle that Svidrigaylov claims?

9. Why do you think Svidrigaylov holds Dunya in such high regard?

10. Why do you think Mrs. Marmaladov loses control?

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