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

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

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

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

5. Who does Raskolnikov visit after the funeral dinner?
(a) His mother
(b) Dunya
(c) Luzhin
(d) Sonia

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Porfiry not satisfied with?

2. What does Raskolnikov do after Mrs. Marmaladov's death?

3. What does Mrs Marmaladov find in her daughter's pockets?

4. What does Raskolnikov see Svidrigaylov doing?

5. What does Raskolnikev remember Sonia telling him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think chapter two means in context of the novel?

2. How is Mrs. Marmaladov different to Raskolnikov?

3. Do you think Raskolnikov has to make a confession?

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

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

6. How does Raskolnikov finally find salvation?

7. Why do you think Luzhin sets up Sonia?

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

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

10. Do you think Raskolnikov has finally accepted his guilt?

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