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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. How does the General describe the Prince to his wife?
(a) As a very strange, unnatural man.
(b) As a happy-go-lucky, carefree man.
(c) As a very ill and incapacitated man.
(d) As a pleasant, interesting man.

2. Who does Nastassya expect to try to get the money?
(a) Ganja.
(b) Yephanchin.
(c) Ferdyshchenko.
(d) Totsky.

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

4. When the Yephachin women ask what Myshkin thinks of them, who does he avoid commenting on?
(a) Adelaide.
(b) Alexandra.
(c) Madam Yephachin.
(d) Aglaya.

5. What game does Nastassya suggest to the men?
(a) Describing the worst thing someone's done to them.
(b) Describing the worst thing they've ever done.
(c) Describing embarrasing information about themselves.
(d) Describing secrets about the women.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago did Totsky take in Nastassya as his ward?

2. What is General Yephanchin's initial response to the Prince's request for help?

3. Who gets fired in Ferdyshchenko's story?

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

5. What story does Ganja's father tell?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Ganja marrying Nastassya?

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

5. How did Rogozhin become estranged from his father?

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

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

8. How does the General treat Prince Myshkin?

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

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

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