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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 state is Rogozhin in when he visits Ganja's house on Myshkin's first night there?
(a) He is injured and in need of a doctor.
(b) He is exhausted and falling asleep.
(c) He is crying uncontrollably.
(d) He is drunk.

2. Where does Myshkin plan to live?
(a) He arranges to buy a house next to Ganja's.
(b) He arranges to stay with Rogozhin permanently.
(c) He arranges to rent Lebedyev's house in Palovsk.
(d) He arranges to live with the Yephanchins.

3. What reason does Ganja give for wanting Myshkin as a friend?
(a) That scoundrels need honest men.
(b) That Myshkin is fun to listen to.
(c) That he wants to keep an eye on Myshkin, who he doesn't trust.
(d) That he needs someone like Myshkin to believe in his goodness.

4. What does Ganja ask Aglaya to do?
(a) Save him from marrying Nastassya.
(b) Run away to marry Myshkin.
(c) Prevent her mother from learning what her father is doing.
(d) Arrange a marriage for her sister.

5. What does Myshkin learn about Nastassya's engagement to Rogozhin?
(a) Nastassya is rumored to have run off with Rogozhin without marrying him.
(b) Nastassya is rumored to have left Rogozhin on their wedding day.
(c) Nastassya is rumored to have married Rogozhin and left the country with him.
(d) Nastassya is rumored to have married Rogozhin and then left him a week later.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is at the door at Ganja's home, when Myshkin answers it?

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

3. What is Rogozhin's house like?

4. What does Myshkin threaten to do, after Ganja calls him an idiot?

5. What gift did the General buy Nastassya Filoppovna?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ganja's father embarrass him?

2. How does the General treat Prince Myshkin?

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

4. What wrongs does Ganja accuse Myshkin of during this section?

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

6. What stories does Myshkin tell Rogozhin about religion?

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

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

9. How does Madam Yephanchin react to Myshkin going off to collect his inheritance?

10. How did Rogozhin become estranged from his father?

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