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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 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) Myshkin's inheritance.
(d) The retraction of the article.

2. What has Varya been trying to do in her visits to the Yephanchins' house?
(a) Get Aglaya to marry her brother.
(b) Convince Adelaide to run away with Koyla.
(c) Win a favor from Madam Yephanchin.
(d) Convince General Yephanchin to forgive a loan.

3. When Hippolite wakes at Myshkin's celebration, how long does a party member say he's been asleep?
(a) Forty-two minutes.
(b) One hour.
(c) Twenty minutes.
(d) Seven minutes.

4. What happens to General Ivolgin?
(a) He is arrested.
(b) He has a stroke.
(c) He is hit by a carriage.
(d) He falls down stairs.

5. Who does Myshkin stop one of the officer friends of the Yephanshins from hitting?
(a) Radomsky.
(b) Aglaya.
(c) Nastassya.
(d) Madam Yephanchin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hippolite mention seeing in a dream?

2. Who tells Myshkin that the duel with the officer has been called off?

3. What does Myshkin offer Burdovsky?

4. How does Myshkin feel when he leaves the Yephanchin house at the end of Part IV, Chapter V?

5. What does Myshkin say, when Aglaya asks him to marry her in Part IV, Chapter V?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Keller ask Myshkin for?

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

3. What leads up to the violence in the park?

4. Why does Hippolite want to kill himself?

5. What happens when Hippolite tries to kill himself?

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

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

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

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

10. What is Ganja's attitude toward his father?

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