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

2. Who does Luzhin ask to meet
(a) Sonia
(b) Dunya
(c) Mrs. Raskolnikov
(d) Raskolnikov

3. What does Raskolnikov dream about?
(a) Marrying Sonia
(b) Himself as a child
(c) Murdering his mother
(d) A world affected by a virus

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Raskolnikov ask his mother?

2. Who does Mrs. Marmaladov give place of honor?

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

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

5. Why does Raskolnikov want to visit Sonia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why do you think Luzhin sets up Sonia?

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

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

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

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

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

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