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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is Ganja arguing with, when Varya comes home at the beginning of Part IV?
(a) Hippolite.
(b) Varya's husband.
(c) General Yephanchin.
(d) Ganja and Varya's father.

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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) Get payment on the loan he mae to Varya.
(d) Throw Ganja's father out of the house.

10. What is Madam Yephanchin's position about the possibility of Myshkin marrying her daughter Aglaya?
(a) She says Myshkin can only marry her daughter if he's no longer involved with Rogozhin.
(b) She says Myshkin must marry her daughter.
(c) She doesn't care if Myshkin marries her daughter.
(d) She says Myshkin can never marry her daughter.

11. How much money is Lebedev missing?
(a) 800 roubles.
(b) 200 roubles.
(c) 400 roubles.
(d) 600 roubles.

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

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

14. Nastassya has written Aglaya several letters that Aglaya shows Myshkin. What do these letters ask Aglaya to do?
(a) Stay away from Myshkin.
(b) Marry Myshkin.
(c) Give Nastassya money.
(d) Steal a cross from Myshkin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Myshkin offer Burdovsky?

2. How does Madam Yephanchin feel about the Prince's visitors?

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

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

5. What happens to General Ivolgin?

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