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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. Where does Aglaya say she comes some mornings at 7 o'clock?
(a) A small cafe on a street corner.
(b) A green bench in the park.
(c) An isolated stump in a field.
(d) A red newstand by the train station.

2. What phrase did Koyla overhear Aglaya say while she was reading Don Quixote?
(a) Stern order of chivalry.
(b) Poor knight.
(c) Tilting at windmills.
(d) Arrows of adversary.

3. When Radomsky asks for Myshkin's friendship, what is Myshkin's response?
(a) Myshkin immediately denies his friendship.
(b) Myshkin offers his friendship, and then changes his mind.
(c) Myshkin immediately offers his friendship.
(d) Myshkin denies his friendship, and then changes his mind.

4. Who does Aglaya tell her mother she is going to marry, when Madam Yephanchin interrupts Aglaya and Myshkin's meeting in the park?
(a) Ganja.
(b) Rogozhin.
(c) Myshkin.
(d) Lebedyev.

5. When the Prince and Rogozhin get back to Myshkin's house, what have a group of visitors gathered to celebrate?
(a) Myskin's birthday.
(b) Myshkin's recovery.
(c) The retraction of the article.
(d) Myshkin's inheritance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What illness does Hippolite have?

3. Who is the first visitor who arrives, while Myshkin is recuperating?

4. What happens to General Ivolgin?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why hasn't Myshkin visited the Yephanchins?

4. Why does Hippolite want to kill himself?

5. What does Madam Yephanchin feel about her daughter's relationship with Myshkin?

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

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

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

9. How does Madam Yephanchin react, after Burdovsky and his companions object to the information Ganja reveals about Burdovsky?

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

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