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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does Myshkin stop one of the officer friends of the Yephanshins from hitting?
(a) Nastassya.
(b) Aglaya.
(c) Madam Yephanchin.
(d) Radomsky.

4. Why does General Ivolgin say he is leaving Lebedev's house?
(a) Because he and Lebedev are always arguing.
(b) Because Ganja has promised to take him back.
(c) Because he has found a better place to live.
(d) Because he has fallen in love and wants to marry.

5. After Myshkin returns to the Yephanchins' house, following the walk in the park and the fight, what does Aglaya show Myshkin how to do?
(a) Load a gun.
(b) Sew a button.
(c) Carve a whistle.
(d) Sharpen a knife.

6. 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.

7. Where does Hippolite plan to kill himself?
(a) In Nastassya's bedroom.
(b) In front of Myshkin's home.
(c) In Rogozhin's library.
(d) In Povlovsk Park.

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

9. How does Myshkin feel when he leaves the Yephanchin house at the end of Part IV, Chapter V?
(a) Scared.
(b) Happy.
(c) Angry.
(d) Sad.

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

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

12. Does Myshkin believe Lebedev's story about finding the money?
(a) No, he questions Lebedev until he learns the whole truth.
(b) Yes, but later he learns that Lebedev was lying.
(c) No, but he doesn't trouble Lebedev to try to find out the whole truth.
(d) Yes, and he continues to believe the story.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hippolite realize, after seeing Rogozhin in his room at night, that Rogozhin couldn't have been there?

2. What is Madam Yephanchin's position about the possibility of Myshkin marrying her daughter Aglaya?

3. How does Myshkin react to the idea that someone stole Lebedev's money?

4. What games do Aglaya's sisters report that she played with her visitor?

5. How does Hippolite plan to kill himself?

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