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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Madame Yephanchin react to Myshkin?
(a) She distrusts him on sight.
(b) She is annoyed by him.
(c) She dislikes him immediately.
(d) She likes him immediately.

2. How long is Myshkin away from St. Petersburg?
(a) One year.
(b) Six months.
(c) Two years.
(d) Eighteen months.

3. Who gives Aglaya a letter from Myshkin?
(a) Ganja.
(b) Koyla.
(c) Varya.
(d) Nastassya.

4. Who is Prince Myshkin traveling to meet?
(a) Lebedev.
(b) Nastassya Flippovna.
(c) Rogozhin.
(d) Madame Yephanchin.

5. Where does Rogozhin invite Prince Myshkin?
(a) To meet Nastassya Flippovna.
(b) To a formal ball.
(c) To a state dinner.
(d) To his father's funeral service.

6. What is Rogozhin's house like?
(a) Large and bright.
(b) Small and gloomy.
(c) Small and bright.
(d) Large and gloomy.

7. Who finally brings Myshkin to Nastassya's house?
(a) Aglaya.
(b) Koyla.
(c) Rogozhin.
(d) Ganja.

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

9. Who does Myshkin think is following him?
(a) Aglaya.
(b) Rogozhin.
(c) Koyla.
(d) Nastassya.

10. In what country was the hospital located where Prince Myshkin stayed?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Austria.
(c) Germany.
(d) Belgium.

11. What is Totsky's story about?
(a) Stealing a woman's affections.
(b) Sending a false letter to a woman's husband.
(c) Blackmailing a priest.
(d) Seducing an older woman for money.

12. Where does Rogozhin suggest that Myshkin should stay, after the fight with Ganja?
(a) With the Yephanchins.
(b) At a hospital.
(c) At a hotel.
(d) With Rogozhin.

13. What illness does Prince Myshkin suffer from?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Anemia.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Arthritis.

14. What does Rogozhin say his reason is for traveling to Russia?
(a) To take over a business.
(b) To find a lost relative.
(c) To collect an inheritance.
(d) To be married.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Myshkin react when Ganja calls him an idiot?

2. What does General Ivolgin do, after promising to bring Myshkin to see Nastassya?

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

4. What gift did the General buy Nastassya Filoppovna?

5. Who does the General suggest should marry Nastassya Filippovna?

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