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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 party react when Vera says Hippolite is going to kill himself?
(a) No one reacts, acting bored.
(b) Everyone gets angry and yells at Hippolite.
(c) Everyone is upset and runs to stop Hippolite.
(d) Everyone laughs, disbelieving.

2. What is Radomsky's view of liberalism?
(a) He thinks it's naive but admires it.
(b) He is in favor of it.
(c) He doesn't have an opinion.
(d) He is opposed to it.

3. Who does Lebedev think stole his missing money?
(a) Rogozhin.
(b) General Yephanchin.
(c) Ferdyshchenko.
(d) Myshkin.

4. Who does Ganja blame for Burdovsky's claim against Myshkin?
(a) Bankers.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Government officials.
(d) Burdovsky's mother.

5. What reason does Myshkin give Aglaya for him coming to Pavlovsk?
(a) Myshkin says he came to rekindle his friendship with Rogozhin.
(b) Myshkin says he came to be near Aglaya.
(c) Myshkin says he came to get away from Moscow.
(d) Myshkin says he came to win Nastassya's love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hippolite mention seeing in a dream?

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

3. How does Madam Yephanchin feel about the Prince's visitors?

4. Why does Hippolite realize, after seeing Rogozhin in his room at night, that Rogozhin couldn't have been there?

5. What does Burdovsky want from Myshkin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why hasn't Myshkin visited the Yephanchins?

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

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

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

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

6. What does Keller ask Myshkin for?

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

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

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

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

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