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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens to Ganja's father while Myshkin is away?
2. What skill does the Prince tell the General that he has?
3. At the beginning of the first chapter, where are the men in the train traveling to?
4. How did General Yephanchin make his reputation and fortune?
5. What does Ganja do when Madam Yephanchin confronts him about what she suspects her husband is doing behind her back?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Myshkin predict about Rogozhin and Nastassya Filippovna?
2. How do the Yephanchins' three daughters react to Myshkin?
3. Why is Ganja marrying Nastassya?
4. What does Rogozhin describe as having happened between him and Nastassya before she left him?
5. What does Myshkin say that he does not care about, before he proposes to Nastassya?
6. How does Madam Yephanchin react to Myshkin going off to collect his inheritance?
7. How does Aglaya react to Ganja's letter?
8. What does Nastassya say initially to Myshkin's proposal?
9. What does Ferdyshchenko describe doing to make sure someone else is blamed for his own theft?
10. What does Myshkin do, when Ganja apologizes for hitting him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss how characters in the novel define themselves, and their relationships to others.
1) How does Rogozhin define himself in the novel? What is his perception of himself? How does his own self-perception lead him to violence against both Myshkin and Nastassya?
2) How does Nastassya define herself in the novel? How does her relationship with Totsky affect her self-perception? How does her view of herself affect her relationships with Rogozhin and with Myshkin?
3) How does Aglyana perceive herself? How do her parents' and sisters' attitudes affect her self-perception? How does her definition of herself affect her relationships with others, including her romantic relationships with Ganja and Myshkin? What leads her to the confrontation with Nastassya after Myshkin's seizure?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss religion in the novel.
1) What stories do the characters tell about religion and about God? What do these stories mean? Why does the author include them in the novel?
2) What do Myshkin and Rogozhin say about the religious painting in Rogozhin's house? What is the significance of the painting? Does it reveal anything about Rogozhin's relationship to religion? What about the crosses that the two men exchange? What is the religious significance of the crosses?
3) How does Myshkin react when he learns his benefactor turned to Catholicism before his death? What does this say about Myshkin's attitude toward religion? How is Myshkin's attitude toward religion different than the other characters' attitudes?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss death in the novel.
1) Discuss Hippolite's attempted suicide and impending death from disease. How does Hippolite perceive death? How does he deal with impending death?
2) Discuss General Ivolgin's death from stroke. What does death mean to the General and those around him? What perspective does his first stroke and eventual death put on his disagreement with Lebedev?
3) Discuss Nastassya's death. What leads up to her death? What does her death mean to Rogozhin and to Myshkin? What does death mean to Nastassya?
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