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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 change when she recites from a reading?
(a) Adjectives describing a book.
(b) The name of a character.
(c) Initials on a rosary.
(d) The location of a house.

2. What other literary work does the phrase Aglaya said bring up?
(a) A book.
(b) A poem.
(c) A story.
(d) An article.

3. Where does Myshkin recuperate from his seizure?
(a) Ganja's boarding house.
(b) The Yephanchin's house.
(c) Rogozhin's house.
(d) Lebedev's villa.

4. What does Nastassya ask Myshkin?
(a) What he is thinking.
(b) Whether he loves her.
(c) When he is leaving.
(d) Whether he is happy.

5. To whom does Aglaya ask Koyla to give the animal she's bought?
(a) Ganja.
(b) Rogozhin.
(c) General Yephanchin.
(d) Myshkin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Burdovsky want from Myshkin?

2. What is Hippolite's response to Madam Yephanchin's anger?

3. Does Myshkin believe Lebedev's story about finding the money?

4. Who first points out the article about Myshkin in the newspaper?

5. When Myshkin asks about Lebedev's missing money, where does Lebedev tell Myshkin he found the money?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Myshkin learn that Nastassya is in town?

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

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

4. What are Agalya's plans for herself and Myshkin when she first meets him in the park?

5. How do Myshkin and Agalya each interpret Myshkin's earlier letter to Agalya?

6. Why does Hippolite want to kill himself?

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

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

9. Why hasn't Myshkin visited the Yephanchins?

10. What does Aglaya say to Myshkin, after her proposal to him?

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