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

2. What animal does Aglaya buy from Koyla?
(a) A hedgehog.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A cat.
(d) An armadillo.

3. Who tells Myshkin that an officer wants to duel him?
(a) General Tephanchin.
(b) Nastassya.
(c) Rogozhin.
(d) Keller.

4. Nastassya has written Aglaya several letters that Aglaya shows Myshkin. What do these letters ask Aglaya to do?
(a) Steal a cross from Myshkin.
(b) Stay away from Myshkin.
(c) Marry Myshkin.
(d) Give Nastassya money.

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 say he is going to read?

2. What does Ganja tell Varya he wants to do at the beginning of Part IV?

3. Who does Aglaya tell her mother she is going to marry, when Madam Yephanchin interrupts Aglaya and Myshkin's meeting in the park?

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

5. How does Aglaya claim Ganja proved his love for her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does General Ivolgin act when he talks to Myshkin after his argument with Lebedev?

7. What does Myskhin's view of dueling seem to be?

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

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

10. How does Myshkin contradict what Aglaya has told him about Ganja?

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