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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Nastassya react to Rogozhin's arrival?
(a) She is sad to see him and pouts.
(b) She is pleased with the reaction to him.
(c) She is angry at him and avoids him.
(d) She is bored by him.

2. Who does Nastassya expect to try to get the money?
(a) Totsky.
(b) Ferdyshchenko.
(c) Yephanchin.
(d) Ganja.

3. What does Nastassya use to retrieve the money?
(a) She uses tongs.
(b) She uses a bowl.
(c) She uses her hands.
(d) She has a servant get it.

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

5. Who gets fired in Ferdyshchenko's story?
(a) A servant.
(b) Ferdyshchenko.
(c) Ferdyshchenko's brother.
(d) A clerk at a shop.

6. What does Myshkin threaten to do, after Ganja calls him an idiot?
(a) Pay for his own lodgings elsewhere.
(b) Reveal what he's been doing to Madam Yephanchin.
(c) Fight Ganja in a duel of honor.
(d) Tell General Yephanchin what Ganja has said.

7. Whose death does Yephanchin tell a story about?
(a) His sister.
(b) His mother.
(c) His landlady.
(d) His schoolteacher.

8. What is the General's plan for his daughter Aglaya?
(a) He plans her to be educated as a teacher.
(b) He plans her to be educated as an artist.
(c) He plans her to marry a rich man.
(d) He plans her to be sent to a convent.

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

10. What does Ganja ask Aglaya to do?
(a) Save him from marrying Nastassya.
(b) Prevent her mother from learning what her father is doing.
(c) Run away to marry Myshkin.
(d) Arrange a marriage for her sister.

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

12. Whose house does Myshkin go to when he first arrives back in St. Petersburg?
(a) Lebedev's house.
(b) The Yephanchins' house.
(c) Ganja's house.
(d) Rogozhin's house.

13. What do Ganja and his family argue about?
(a) Ganja's plans to move to a new home.
(b) Ganja bringing Myshkin home with him.
(c) Ganja's job working for General Yephanchin.
(d) Ganja's plans to marry Nastassya.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aglaya ask Myshkin to do?

2. Who finally brings Myshkin to Nastassya's house?

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

4. What illness does Prince Myshkin suffer from?

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

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