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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 does the note Varya finds on Ganja's desk ask for?
2. How does Myshkin react to the idea that someone stole Lebedev's money?
3. What does Myshkin do while he is waiting for Aglaya on the park bench?
4. What does Myshkin say, when Aglaya asks him to marry her in Part IV, Chapter V?
5. What entertainment do the Prince and the Yephanchins watch after they walk in the park?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Myshkin contradict what Aglaya has told him about Ganja?
2. How does Aglaya react to winning and losing at games?
3. How does Madam Yephanchin react, after Burdovsky and his companions object to the information Ganja reveals about Burdovsky?
4. Why does Burdovsky feel he is owed something from Myshkin?
5. What is Ganja's attitude toward his father?
6. What does Ganja report about Burdovsky's relationship with Pavlishtchev?
7. How does General Ivolgin act when he talks to Myshkin after his argument with Lebedev?
8. What does Keller ask Myshkin for?
9. What does Aglaya say to Myshkin, after her proposal to him?
10. How does Myshkin treat Rogozhin, after Rogozhin tried to kill him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the role of family in the characters' lives.
1) How do the characters' families and social positions affect their lives? How do family relationships affect how the characters are accepted by society?
2) How does it affect Nastassya that her parents are killed when she is young? How do the characters' upbringings affect their personalities and attitudes?
3) How do the characters' families try to influence the characters' lives and decisions? What forces do families use to influence family members' behavior.
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 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?
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