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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sonia stay?

2. What is Porfiry not satisfied with?

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

4. Who comes to visit Raskolnikov in his room?

5. Who does Luzhin point to as his witness?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways are Svidrigaylov and Raskolnikov similar?

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

3. In what way does Raskolnikov's confession sound different to what he had earlier claimed to think?

4. What effect does Raskolnikov's decision to confess have on his mental state.

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

6. How does Raskolnikov view a public confession?

7. In what way does Svidrigaylov's suicide confirm to the reader the complexity of his character?

8. How is Mrs. Marmaladov different to Raskolnikov?

9. How does Luzhin make Sonia look guilty?

10. In the epilogue how does Dostoevsky distance the reader from Raskolnikov?

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