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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. Whom does Mrs. Stavrogin invite into the conversation that starts Chapter 5?
(a) Dasha and the Drozdovs.
(b) Nicholas and Dasha.
(c) Lisa Tushin.
(d) Verkhovensky.

2. How does the audience respond to Karminazov's reading?
(a) They begin to riot.
(b) They weep at the beauty of it.
(c) They sing Karminazov's praises.
(d) They are bored.

3. What outrageous act does a local lieutenant commit?
(a) He bites his general's ear.
(b) He seduces a general's wife.
(c) He kills himself and his fellow officers.
(d) He refuses to go to the Crimea with his regiment.

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

5. What is Mrs. Stavrogin's feeling about the fête?
(a) She is helping Mrs. Lembke.
(b) She is appalled that people would come for Mrs. Lembke.
(c) She envies Mrs. Lembke.
(d) She is co-sponsoring the fête.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chapter 5 begin?

2. What had some poor people done to prepare for the fête?

3. What does Mrs. Stavrogin want to find out at the beginning of Chapter 5?

4. What kind of poem does Liputin read to the crowd?

5. What was Nicholas' first impression of Mary Lebyatkin?

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