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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 Lebedev plan to do about the missing money?
2. What is Radomsky's former profession?
3. What illness does Hippolite have?
4. Who is Ganja arguing with, when Varya comes home at the beginning of Part IV?
5. How does Myshkin feel when he leaves the Yephanchin house at the end of Part IV, Chapter V?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Keller ask Myshkin for?
2. How does Myshkin feel, when he gets to Madam Yephanchin and is sitting at the table with Aglaya and the other guests?
3. What happens when Hippolite tries to kill himself?
4. What does Ganja report about Burdovsky's relationship with Pavlishtchev?
5. How does Myshkin answer Nastassya's question to him, and what is Rogozhin's response?
6. What does Madam Yephanchin feel about her daughter's relationship with Myshkin?
7. How does General Ivolgin act when he talks to Myshkin after his argument with Lebedev?
8. What are Agalya's plans for herself and Myshkin when she first meets him in the park?
9. How does Myshkin treat Rogozhin, after Rogozhin tried to kill him?
10. What is Ganja's attitude toward his father?
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
The novel centers around the characters' love relationships. Discuss love in the novel.
1) What causes characters to fall in love with each other in the novel? How can the characters, and the reader, distinguish between true love and different kinds of attraction in the novel?
2) What role does jealousy play in the characters' love relationships? What role does the characters' ideas of their self-worth play in their attraction to others?
3) What role does social position and money play in the characters' love relationships?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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