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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. What is Radomsky's former profession?
(a) He is a retired government beaurocrat.
(b) He is a retired banker.
(c) He is a retired dressmaker.
(d) He is a retired army officer.

2. What entertainment do the Prince and the Yephanchins watch after they walk in the park?
(a) A band.
(b) A juggler.
(c) A singer.
(d) A puppet show.

3. Where does Hippolite plan to kill himself?
(a) In Nastassya's bedroom.
(b) In Rogozhin's library.
(c) In Povlovsk Park.
(d) In front of Myshkin's home.

4. How long does Ganja tell Myshkin that Nastassya has been in town?
(a) One week.
(b) Four days.
(c) Two hours.
(d) A fortnight.

5. What does Hippolite do when Myshkin tells him to stop reading?
(a) Hippolite continues to read, despite Myshkin's plea.
(b) Hippolite reads louder so he is shouting in Myshkin's ear.
(c) Hippolite stops reading.
(d) Hippolite stops reading but starts again a moment later.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Myshkin returns to the Yephanchins' house, following the walk in the park and the fight, what does Aglaya show Myshkin how to do?

2. What does Burdovsky want from Myshkin?

3. Who does Madam Yephanchin wonder if Aglaya is seriously interested in, at the beginning of Part III?

4. What does Hippolite mention seeing in a dream?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Hippolite want to kill himself?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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