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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 does Luzhin tell Sonia he will help her to get?
(a) A dog
(b) A shop
(c) A government pension
(d) A husband

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

3. Where does Raskolnikev go when he sees Sonia?
(a) Church
(b) The police station
(c) The park
(d) His apartment

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

5. For what reason does Porfiry say he has come to see Raskolnikov?
(a) To arrest him
(b) To apologize
(c) To get him to confess
(d) To tell him a joke

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Svidrigaylov prove to Dunya?

2. How does Mrs. Marmaladov attempt to show Sonia's innocence?

3. What is Mrs. Marmaladov forcing her children to do?

4. What do Sonia and Raskolnikov think love can do to them?

5. What happens when Raskolnikov looks into Sonia's eyes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Luzhin use his wealth?

3. What do you think Dunya represented to Svidgaylov?

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

5. What does chapter two show about Sonia's upbringing?

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

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

8. What effect does Svidrigaylov death have on Raskolnikov?

9. How do you think not confessing to the murder will affect Raskolnikov?

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

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