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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What games do Aglaya's sisters report that she played with her visitor?
(a) Croquet and cards.
(b) Chess and darts.
(c) Darts and croquet.
(d) Cards and chess.

2. What does Aglaya change when she recites from a reading?
(a) Initials on a rosary.
(b) Adjectives describing a book.
(c) The location of a house.
(d) The name of a character.

3. Who is the first visitor who arrives, while Myshkin is recuperating?
(a) Madam Yephanchin.
(b) Ganja.
(c) General Ivolgin.
(d) Radomsky.

4. Who does Lebedev think stole his missing money?
(a) Rogozhin.
(b) Ferdyshchenko.
(c) Myshkin.
(d) General Yephanchin.

5. What entertainment do the Prince and the Yephanchins watch after they walk in the park?
(a) A singer.
(b) A band.
(c) A juggler.
(d) A puppet show.

6. When Radomsky asks for Myshkin's friendship, what is Myshkin's response?
(a) Myshkin immediately denies his friendship.
(b) Myshkin offers his friendship, and then changes his mind.
(c) Myshkin immediately offers his friendship.
(d) Myshkin denies his friendship, and then changes his mind.

7. Who does Madam Yephanchin learn came to visit Aglaya while she was out?
(a) Rogozhin.
(b) Myshkin.
(c) Koyla.
(d) Ganja.

8. How does Myshkin react to the idea that someone stole Lebedev's money?
(a) Myshkin is secretly pleased.
(b) Myshkin doesn't care.
(c) Myshkin is horrified.
(d) Myshkin is irritated.

9. What does Hippolite mention seeing in a dream?
(a) A spider.
(b) A rat.
(c) A scorpion.
(d) A snake.

10. What has Varya been trying to do in her visits to the Yephanchins' house?
(a) Convince General Yephanchin to forgive a loan.
(b) Convince Adelaide to run away with Koyla.
(c) Get Aglaya to marry her brother.
(d) Win a favor from Madam Yephanchin.

11. What does Koyla ask his father to do?
(a) Come home.
(b) Find a job.
(c) Leave the city with Koyla.
(d) Apologize to Ganja.

12. Who wrote the article?
(a) Hippolite.
(b) Ganja.
(c) Keller.
(d) Pavlishtchev.

13. What animal does Aglaya buy from Koyla?
(a) An armadillo.
(b) A hedgehog.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A cat.

14. What does Ganja tell Varya he wants to do at the beginning of Part IV?
(a) Invite Myshkin to come stay with them.
(b) Throw Ganja's father out of the house.
(c) Get payment on the loan he mae to Varya.
(d) Help Varya and her husband move out on their own.

15. What happens to General Ivolgin?
(a) He is hit by a carriage.
(b) He is arrested.
(c) He has a stroke.
(d) He falls down stairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Radomsky's view of liberalism?

2. How does Aglaya claim Ganja proved his love for her?

3. Who comes in Hippolite's dream, when he calls for help?

4. What is Radomsky's former profession?

5. To whom does Aglaya ask Koyla to give the animal she's bought?

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