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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What skill does the Prince tell the General that he has?
(a) Cartography.
(b) Architectural drafting.
(c) Caricature.
(d) Calligraphy.

2. What does Rogozhin's mother do to Myshkin?
(a) She curses him.
(b) She orders him out of the house.
(c) She blesses him.
(d) She orders him to take her away from Rogozhin.

3. How many daughters do the Yephanchins have?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

4. Where does Myshkin go to claim his inheritance?
(a) Kiev.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Belgrade.

5. What does Myshkin pick up without thinking about it, while he is talking to Rogozhin?
(a) A lighter.
(b) A knife.
(c) A gun.
(d) A rope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Nastassya expect to try to get the money?

2. What is the General's plan for his daughter Aglaya?

3. Who does the General offer Totsky to marry?

4. What game does Nastassya suggest to the men?

5. Who is home when Myshkin visits the Yephanchins' house, after leaving Rogozhin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Myshkin and Rogozhin's initial meeting like, when Myshkin visits Rogozhin's house upon returning to St. Petersburg?

2. How does Aglaya react to Ganja's letter?

3. How does the footman treat Prince Myshkin when he first arrives at the Yephanchins' house?

4. How does Myshkin respond when Adelaide asks him about falling in love?

5. How does Ganja come to blows with Myshkin, and how does Myshkin respond?

6. What stories does Myshkin tell Rogozhin about religion?

7. What does Ferdyshchenko describe doing to make sure someone else is blamed for his own theft?

8. How do the Yephanchins' three daughters react to Myshkin?

9. What happened to the man that Totsky wronged in his story?

10. How does Ganja's father embarrass him?

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