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

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

3. How does Hippolite plan to kill himself?
(a) By jumping off a bridge.
(b) By shooting himself.
(c) By poisoning himself.
(d) By hanging himself.

4. Who is the first visitor who arrives, while Myshkin is recuperating?
(a) Ganja.
(b) Madam Yephanchin.
(c) Radomsky.
(d) General Ivolgin.

5. How does Myshkin react to the idea that someone stole Lebedev's money?
(a) Myshkin is irritated.
(b) Myshkin is secretly pleased.
(c) Myshkin doesn't care.
(d) Myshkin is horrified.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the article?

2. What does Koyla ask his father to do?

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

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

5. What is the tale Lebedev tells at Myshkin's celebration about?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What happens when Hippolite tries to kill himself?

9. What does Keller ask Myshkin for?

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

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