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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. How much money is Myshkin about to inherit?
2. What does Myshkin threaten to do, after Ganja calls him an idiot?
3. What does Ganja's father throw out a window in the story?
4. Who goes first in the game?
5. Who is at the door at Ganja's home, when Myshkin answers it?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Myshkin say that he does not care about, before he proposes to Nastassya?
2. How does the General treat Prince Myshkin?
3. What does Rogozhin describe as having happened between him and Nastassya before she left him?
4. How does Nastassya react to Rogozhin's offer of a present?
5. What does Ferdyshchenko describe doing to make sure someone else is blamed for his own theft?
6. What stories does Myshkin tell Rogozhin about religion?
7. How did Rogozhin become estranged from his father?
8. How does the footman treat Prince Myshkin when he first arrives at the Yephanchins' house?
9. What happened to the man that Totsky wronged in his story?
10. How does Aglaya react to Ganja's letter?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
In the society depicted in the novel, marriage is an important institution. The characters try to arrange marriages for themselves and for others. Discuss marriage in the novel.
1) How do the characters choose who they want to marry? How does Myshkin decide first to marry Aglaya and then Nastassya? How does Nastassya determine to marry Myshkin, and then run off with Rogozhin?
2) How do family members influence marriage? How do Aglaya's parents think of their daughter's marriage? What influence do they have on her marriage?
3) How does society view marriage? What relation does money and social position have to marriage? Does society influence the marriage choices that the characters make?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss beauty and women in the novel.
1) How do the characters treat beautiful women differently from women who are not beautiful, or who are less beautiful? How is beauty valued in the society and by Myshkin?
2) Why is Nastassya introduced to Myshkin first by a picture? What does Myshkin know about Nastassya, based on her picture? How does Nastassya's beauty affect her life and her character?
3) How does Aglaya's beauty affect her life and her character? Does it change her personality? How would her life be different if she were not beautiful?
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