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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 do the party guests decide what order to play the game?
2. How does the General describe the Prince to his wife?
3. What gift did the General buy Nastassya Filoppovna?
4. What do some guests at the party criticize Myshkin for?
5. What does Rogozhin give to Nastassya?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Nastassya react to Rogozhin's offer of a present?
2. How does Myshkin describe Aglaya?
3. What happens to Myshkin when Rogozhin tries to kill him?
4. What does Nastassya ask Myshkin, after hearing the stories of the men at the party?
5. What does Myshkin do, when Ganja apologizes for hitting him?
6. How did Rogozhin become estranged from his father?
7. What does Ferdyshchenko do with his ill-gotten gains?
8. What is Myshkin and Rogozhin's initial meeting like, when Myshkin visits Rogozhin's house upon returning to St. Petersburg?
9. Why is Ganja marrying Nastassya?
10. How do the Yephanchins' three daughters react to Myshkin?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Myshkin and Rogozhin are the two main male characters in the novel, and they are contrasted in many ways. Discuss the similarities and differences between Rogozhin and Myshkin.
1) How are Myshkin and Rogozhin physically different? How are their social positions and possessions different? What do these differences indicate about their characters?
2) Compare Myshkin and Rogozhins' responses to others. How do they react to perceived wrongs? How do they react to the forces of society and individuals that influence their behaviors?
3) Why do Myshkin and Rogozhin become close, so that Myshkin greets Rogozhin as a brother? Why does Rogozhin go to Myshkin at the end of the novel after he's killed Nastassya? In what ways are the men similar, and what bond do they share?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the values of St. Petersburg society that are revealed in the novel.
1) What are the professed values of the characters in the novel? How do they express their professed values?
2) What values are revealed by the characters' actions? How are the values the characters live by different from the values they profess?
3) How are Myshkin's value and style of living different from the values of St. Petersburg society? How does Myshkin reveal the values of St. Petersburg society, by comparison?
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