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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) Chess and darts.
(b) Darts and croquet.
(c) Cards and chess.
(d) Croquet and cards.

2. How does Aglaya claim Ganja proved his love for her?
(a) By slapping her across the face.
(b) By burning his own hand.
(c) By carving her name in his arm.
(d) By offering her all the money he has.

3. Who tells Myshkin that the duel with the officer has been called off?
(a) Radomsky.
(b) Madame Yephanchin.
(c) Lebedev.
(d) Hippolite.

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

5. What other literary work does the phrase Aglaya said bring up?
(a) A book.
(b) A poem.
(c) An article.
(d) A story.

6. What illness does Hippolite have?
(a) Dropsy.
(b) Chilblain.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Hemophilia.

7. How does Madam Yephanchin feel about the Prince's visitors?
(a) She dislikes the people who are visiting Myshkin.
(b) She is envious of the people who are visiting Myshkin.
(c) She likes the people who are visiting Myshkin.
(d) She is bored with the people who are visiting Myshkin.

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

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

10. 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) Yes, but later he learns that Lebedev was lying.
(d) No, he questions Lebedev until he learns the whole truth.

11. At the beginning of Part III, Chapter VI, what decor from Rogozhin's home does Hippolite talk about?
(a) A lamp that shines all night.
(b) A religious painting.
(c) A rug woven in the design of a cross.
(d) A secret drawer in the dresser.

12. Who wrote the note that Varya finds on Ganja's desk?
(a) Myshkin.
(b) Aglaya.
(c) Ganja.
(d) Nastassya.

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

14. What reason does Myshkin give Aglaya for him coming to Pavlovsk?
(a) Myshkin says he came to be near Aglaya.
(b) Myshkin says he came to win Nastassya's love.
(c) Myshkin says he came to get away from Moscow.
(d) Myshkin says he came to rekindle his friendship with Rogozhin.

15. Who comes in Hippolite's dream, when he calls for help?
(a) His brother.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Myshkin tell General Tephanchin when he asks Myshkin about Nastassya?

2. How does Ganja feel about HIppolite?

3. Where does Aglaya say she comes some mornings at 7 o'clock?

4. What does Myshkin say, when Aglaya asks him to marry her in Part IV, Chapter V?

5. What does the note Varya finds on Ganja's desk ask for?

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