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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 does Burdovsky want from Myshkin?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Money.
(c) An apology.
(d) Friendship.

2. When does Hippolite plan to kill himself?
(a) At midnight.
(b) At noon.
(c) At sunrise.
(d) At sunset.

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

4. What does Hippolite say he is going to read?
(a) A poem.
(b) A newspaper article.
(c) A letter.
(d) A story.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does Aglaya buy from Koyla?

2. What does Lebedev plan to do about the missing money?

3. Who is the first visitor who arrives, while Myshkin is recuperating?

4. What does Ganja say happened to Burdovsky's real father?

5. When Radomsky asks for Myshkin's friendship, what is Myshkin's response?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How would Myshkin probably act, if he were in Lebedev's place in the disagreement between Lebedev and General Ivolgin?

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

6. Why does Hippolite want to kill himself?

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

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

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

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

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