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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Raskolnikov go to see the next morning?

2. What is the name of the doctor that visits Rashkolnikov?

3. Why does Luzhin say he wants to marry a poor woman?

4. Who does Raskolnikov set out to find at the beginning of chapter five?

5. What is Zamyotov's position in the police force?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Raskolnikov leaves the room so abruptly in chapter three?

2. What do you think it says about Razumikhin that he is so close to guessing the truth of the murder?

3. How does Raskolnikov hide his guilt?

4. In way can the reader sympathize with Raskolnikov?

5. In what way does Porfiry suggest Raskolnikov has made a mistake?

6. What do you think Raskolnikov's dream in this chapter represents?

7. In what way have Raskolnikov and Porfiry switched roles in chapter five?

8. How seriously is Raskelnikov thinking about his unnamed idea?

9. How does Raskolnikov feel after the murder?

10. What does the letter show about Raskolnikov's relationship with his family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Money plays an important part in this book and the characters that have little money have miserable lives. Choose one character from the book and discuss his hers relationship with money.

1) What does money mean to them? To what length will they go to get money?

2) Does money make the happy? What do you think would happen to the character if he or she did not have money?

Essay Topic 2

Raskolnikov states that the masses "are inferior men" who are "conservative, respectable and docile". Examine this statement in relation to Raskolnikov's character. Why do you think Raskolnikov is reacting against the masses? Do you think he believes what he says?

Essay Topic 3

It seems that the goals for many of the character, particularly the women, is to get married, even if they do not love he person they are marrying. Why do you think marriage was so important in the mid-nineteenth century? What were the benefits of marriage for men? What were the benefits for women? How do you think society viewed people who were not married?

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