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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. When does Hippolite plan to kill himself?
(a) At sunrise.
(b) At sunset.
(c) At noon.
(d) At midnight.

2. What is Madam Yephanchin's position about the possibility of Myshkin marrying her daughter Aglaya?
(a) She says Myshkin can only marry her daughter if he's no longer involved with Rogozhin.
(b) She says Myshkin can never marry her daughter.
(c) She doesn't care if Myshkin marries her daughter.
(d) She says Myshkin must marry her daughter.

3. What does Hippolite say he is going to read?
(a) A poem.
(b) A story.
(c) A newspaper article.
(d) A letter.

4. Who does General Ivolgin tell Myshkin he befriended as a young boy?
(a) Queen Victoria.
(b) Napoleon.
(c) Renoir.
(d) Beethoven.

5. When Myshkin asks about Lebedev's missing money, where does Lebedev tell Myshkin he found the money?
(a) In his wallet.
(b) In a pot.
(c) Under his chair.
(d) Beneath the seat of a carriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nastassya has written Aglaya several letters that Aglaya shows Myshkin. What do these letters ask Aglaya to do?

2. Who is Ganja arguing with, when Varya comes home at the beginning of Part IV?

3. At Madam Yephanchin's gathering, who argues that Burdovsky did not take advantage of Myshkin?

4. When Hippolite wakes at Myshkin's celebration, how long does a party member say he's been asleep?

5. What does Aglaya change when she recites from a reading?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the guests at the Yephanchins' react to Myshkin's response to Radomsky's political views?

2. How does Myshkin treat Rogozhin, after Rogozhin tried to kill him?

3. What does Ganja report about Burdovsky's relationship with Pavlishtchev?

4. How does Myshkin contradict what Aglaya has told him about Ganja?

5. How does Myshkin feel, when he gets to Madam Yephanchin and is sitting at the table with Aglaya and the other guests?

6. How does Myshkin answer Nastassya's question to him, and what is Rogozhin's response?

7. What does Madam Yephanchin think about, as she brings Myshkin to her house?

8. Why does Burdovsky feel he is owed something from Myshkin?

9. Why does Hippolite want to kill himself?

10. How does Aglaya react to winning and losing at games?

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