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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Chapter 1, The Fête, Part One and Chapter 2, The End of The Fête.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Nicholas meet Captain Lebyatkin?
(a) St. Petersburg.
(b) Minsk.
(c) Novgorod.
(d) Moscow.

2. Why did Nicholas initially take an interest in Captain Lebyatkin?
(a) He was impressed by his opulence.
(b) He found his poverty heartbreaking.
(c) He found his buffoonish behavior amusing.
(d) He wanted to help Peter's friends.

3. What would normally happen to youth who behave as these youth are behaving?
(a) They would work for the candidate who won.
(b) They would be sent to Siberia.
(c) They would be sacrificed for the country in war.
(d) They would be rewarded with status in the church.

4. How does Nicholas Stavrogin answer his mother's question?
(a) He answers her with a question about her own plans.
(b) He does not answer.
(c) He says no.
(d) He answers yes.

5. What kind of speech does Stepan Verkhovensky give?
(a) A justification of revolutionary acts.
(b) An attack on materialism.
(c) A defense of high culture.
(d) A jeremiad against the people themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Mrs. Stavrogin invite into the conversation that starts Chapter 5?

2. Why do the townspeople think the Lebyatkins were killed?

3. What causes Mrs. Stavrogin to separate with Stepan Verkhovensky?

4. Who does Peter allow into the fête?

5. In whose house is Peter spreading rumors in the days before the fête?

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