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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 reason does Myshkin give Aglaya for him coming to Pavlovsk?
2. When Hippolite wakes at Myshkin's celebration, how long does a party member say he's been asleep?
3. What happens to General Ivolgin?
4. When Radomsky asks for Myshkin's friendship, what is Myshkin's response?
5. What does Burdovsky want from Myshkin?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Burdovsky feel he is owed something from Myshkin?
2. What does Madam Yephanchin feel about her daughter's relationship with Myshkin?
3. How does Myshkin feel, when he gets to Madam Yephanchin and is sitting at the table with Aglaya and the other guests?
4. How do the guests at the Yephanchins' react to Myshkin's response to Radomsky's political views?
5. How would Myshkin probably act, if he were in Lebedev's place in the disagreement between Lebedev and General Ivolgin?
6. How do Myshkin and Agalya each interpret Myshkin's earlier letter to Agalya?
7. What are Agalya's plans for herself and Myshkin when she first meets him in the park?
8. How does Madam Yephanchin react, after Burdovsky and his companions object to the information Ganja reveals about Burdovsky?
9. How does Aglaya react to winning and losing at games?
10. What happens when Hippolite tries to kill himself?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss fate in the novel.
1) What forces, both within the characters themselves and outside the characters, dictate the paths that the characters' lives take in the novel? To what extent are the characters able to make choices about their lives and control their own destinies?
2) In the novel, there are moments of prophecy, as when Myshkin predicts that Nastassya will marry Rogozhin, and then Rogozhin will murder her. What do these moments of prophecy say about fate and destiny in the novel?
3) Could the novel have ended in any other way, for these particular characters in this particular society?
Essay Topic 2
Nastassya and Aglyana are the two main female characters in the novel. Compare these two characters.
1) In what ways does Nastassya parallel Rogozhin in the novel? In what ways does Aglyana parallel Myshkin? How are the relationships between the two major male characters and the two major female characters similar and different?
2) Compare Nastassya and Aglyana. How are their home lives and upbringing similar and different? How are they perceived by others? How do others affect their actions?
3) Compare the eventual fates of Nastassya and Aglyana. Why is Aglyana the only major character to go on and live a normal life after the climax of the novel? What does this say about Aglyana's emotions and character?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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