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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does Ganja blame for Burdovsky's claim against Myshkin?
(a) Bankers.
(b) Burdovsky's mother.
(c) Lawyers.
(d) Government officials.

4. What is the tale Lebedev tells at Myshkin's celebration about?
(a) A king being poisoned.
(b) Sailors stranded on an island.
(c) Monks turning to cannibalism.
(d) Mountaineers who kill each other in competition.

5. When the Prince and Rogozhin get back to Myshkin's house, what have a group of visitors gathered to celebrate?
(a) The retraction of the article.
(b) Myskin's birthday.
(c) Myshkin's recovery.
(d) Myshkin's inheritance.

6. At Madam Yephanchin's gathering, who argues that Burdovsky did not take advantage of Myshkin?
(a) Alexandrai.
(b) Radomsky.
(c) Aglaya.
(d) Madam Yephanchin.

7. What does Myshkin do while he is waiting for Aglaya on the park bench?
(a) He reads.
(b) He falls asleep.
(c) He watches people and makes up stories about them.
(d) He talks to a stranger.

8. What does Lebedev expect Myshkin to do, now that he knows Lebedev was involved with the scandalous article?
(a) He expects Myshkin to sue him.
(b) He expects Myshkin to kick him out.
(c) He expects Myshkin to forgive him.
(d) He expects Myshkin to stop being his friend.

9. What does Hippolite do when Myshkin tells him to stop reading?
(a) Hippolite continues to read, despite Myshkin's plea.
(b) Hippolite stops reading.
(c) Hippolite stops reading but starts again a moment later.
(d) Hippolite reads louder so he is shouting in Myshkin's ear.

10. What does Myshkin offer Burdovsky?
(a) A country house.
(b) 10,000 roubles.
(c) A letter of apology.
(d) A gold cross.

11. Who does General Ivolgin tell Myshkin he befriended as a young boy?
(a) Napoleon.
(b) Queen Victoria.
(c) Renoir.
(d) Beethoven.

12. What does Myshkin tell General Tephanchin when he asks Myshkin about Nastassya?
(a) Myshkin says Nastassya is insane.
(b) Myshkin says Nastassya no longer interests him.
(c) Myshkin says Nastassya is bewilderingly lovely.
(d) Myshkin says Nastassya is kind and misunderstood.

13. What does Nastassya ask Myshkin?
(a) Whether he is happy.
(b) When he is leaving.
(c) Whether he loves her.
(d) What he is thinking.

14. Who does Madam Yephanchin wonder if Aglaya is seriously interested in, at the beginning of Part III?
(a) Radomsky and Rogozhin.
(b) Myshkin and Ganja.
(c) Ganja and Radomsky.
(d) Rogozhin and Myskin.

15. When Nastassya sees Myshkin at the end of Chapter VI, what does she do?
(a) Stand above him on the stairs.
(b) Lay prone on the grass.
(c) Sit down on his lap.
(d) Get down on her knees.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ganja tell Varya he wants to do at the beginning of Part IV?

3. What has Varya been trying to do in her visits to the Yephanchins' house?

4. What does Ganja say happened to Burdovsky's real father?

5. What is Hippolite's response to Madam Yephanchin's anger?

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