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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Sharpen a knife.
(d) Carve a whistle.

2. Where does Myshkin recuperate from his seizure?
(a) Ganja's boarding house.
(b) Lebedev's villa.
(c) Rogozhin's house.
(d) The Yephanchin's house.

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

9. What is Hippolite's response to Madam Yephanchin's anger?
(a) He yells at her.
(b) He laughs.
(c) He cries.
(d) He storms out of the room.

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

11. What is Radomsky's view of liberalism?
(a) He doesn't have an opinion.
(b) He is in favor of it.
(c) He is opposed to it.
(d) He thinks it's naive but admires it.

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

13. Who does Myshkin realize is the woman from his dream in the park?
(a) Nastassya.
(b) Aglaya.
(c) Madam Yephanchin.
(d) Ganja's mother.

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

15. Who tells Myshkin that an officer wants to duel him?
(a) General Tephanchin.
(b) Keller.
(c) Rogozhin.
(d) Nastassya.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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