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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long ago did Totsky take in Nastassya as his ward?
(a) Seven years.
(b) Twelve years.
(c) Twenty-four years.
(d) Eighteen years.

2. Does Myshkin believe Lebedev's story about finding the money?
(a) Yes, and he continues to believe the story.
(b) No, but he doesn't trouble Lebedev to try to find out the whole truth.
(c) No, he questions Lebedev until he learns the whole truth.
(d) Yes, but later he learns that Lebedev was lying.

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

4. Who is Ganja arguing with, when Varya comes home at the beginning of Part IV?
(a) Ganja and Varya's father.
(b) Hippolite.
(c) Varya's husband.
(d) General Yephanchin.

5. How did General Yephanchin make his reputation and fortune?
(a) By gambling.
(b) By shareholding.
(c) Through an invention.
(d) As a military leader.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Myshkin returns to the Yephanchins' house, following the walk in the park and the fight, what does Aglaya show Myshkin how to do?

2. What does Myshkin offer Burdovsky?

3. Who does Nastassya expect to try to get the money?

4. At the beginning of Part III, Chapter VI, what decor from Rogozhin's home does Hippolite talk about?

5. What does Madam Yephachin tell Myshkin to get for her?

(see the answer key)

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