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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 does Aglaya ask Myshkin to read?
(a) An article in the paper.
(b) A letter from Ganja.
(c) A poem from a book in the library.
(d) Her diary.

2. How long is Myshkin away from St. Petersburg?
(a) One year.
(b) Two years.
(c) Six months.
(d) Eighteen months.

3. Who does Ganja ask Myshkin to deliver a secret letter to?
(a) General Yephachin.
(b) Madam Yephachin.
(c) Nastassya Filippovna.
(d) Aglaya.

4. What does Madam Yephachin tell Myshkin to get for her?
(a) A jewel case from her bedroom.
(b) Her husband's accounting book.
(c) Nastassya Filippovna's photograph.
(d) The tea service from the kitchen.

5. Whose house does Myshkin go to when he first arrives back in St. Petersburg?
(a) Rogozhin's house.
(b) Ganja's house.
(c) The Yephanchins' house.
(d) Lebedev's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Myshkin think of the picture of Nastassya Filippovna?

2. What is Myshkin's reaction to Rogozhin's marriage proposal?

3. What does Madam Yephanchin think her husband is doing behind her back?

4. Whose death does Yephanchin tell a story about?

5. Where does Rogozhin suggest that Myshkin should stay, after the fight with Ganja?

Short Essay Questions

1. What stories does Myshkin tell Rogozhin about religion?

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

3. How did Rogozhin become estranged from his father?

4. What does Myshkin feel when he gets off the train arriving in St. Petersburg?

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

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

7. What happens to Myshkin when Rogozhin tries to kill him?

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

9. How does Ganja's father embarrass him?

10. What does Yephanchin say that he did to make up for his guilty feelings?

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