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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II Ch. I-V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Ganja live?
(a) In his family's boarding house.
(b) Alone in a small house.
(c) In a room in an old woman's house.
(d) In a cottage on a large estate.

2. What is General Yephanchin's initial response to the Prince's request for help?
(a) He immediately offers the Prince a job.
(b) He says at first that he can't help the Prince.
(c) He immediately offers the Prince temporary room and board.
(d) He immediately offers the Prince room and board for as long as he needs it.

3. Has Nastassya met Ganja's family before her arrival on Myshkin's first night there?
(a) Yes, she has met them once.
(b) No, it is their first meeting.
(c) Yes, she has met them numerous times.
(d) No, and the family leaves before Nastassya arrives.

4. How does the General describe the Prince to his wife?
(a) As a very ill and incapacitated man.
(b) As a very strange, unnatural man.
(c) As a happy-go-lucky, carefree man.
(d) As a pleasant, interesting man.

5. What does Ganja do when Madam Yephanchin confronts him about what she suspects her husband is doing behind her back?
(a) He says that he shares her suspicions but doesn't know for a fact it's true.
(b) He admits that she is right.
(c) He denies any knowledge of it.
(d) He promises to search her husband's papers for any evidence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Ganja and his family argue about?

2. What does Rogozhin's mother do to Myshkin?

3. What does Nastassya use to retrieve the money?

4. What does Myshkin think of the picture of Nastassya Filippovna?

5. Who does Ganja ask Myshkin to deliver a secret letter to?

(see the answer key)

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