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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 is Totsky's story about?
(a) Blackmailing a priest.
(b) Stealing a woman's affections.
(c) Sending a false letter to a woman's husband.
(d) Seducing an older woman for money.

2. Where does Rogozhin invite Prince Myshkin?
(a) To meet Nastassya Flippovna.
(b) To a formal ball.
(c) To a state dinner.
(d) To his father's funeral service.

3. Who goes first in the game?
(a) Ganja.
(b) Myshkin.
(c) Ferdyshchenko.
(d) Yephanchin.

4. Who runs after Nastassya and Rogozhin when they leave?
(a) Yephanchin.
(b) Ganja.
(c) Totsky.
(d) Myshkin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Rogozhin offer for Nastassya's hand in marriage?

2. What does Prince Myshkin smoke?

3. Who does the General suggest should marry Nastassya Filippovna?

4. Has Nastassya met Ganja's family before her arrival on Myshkin's first night there?

5. How do the party guests decide what order to play the game?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Ferdyshchenko do with his ill-gotten gains?

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

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

5. What stories does Myshkin tell Rogozhin about religion?

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

7. What does Rogozhin and Lebedev's relationship seem to be like during their conversation on the train?

8. What does Myshkin predict about Rogozhin and Nastassya Filippovna?

9. What does Rogozhin describe as having happened between him and Nastassya before she left him?

10. What does Nastassya say initially to Myshkin's proposal?

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