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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Chapter 7, At Virginsky's and Chapter 8, Ivan the Crown-Prince.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Stavrogin want to find out at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) She wants to know whether her son's name has been sullied.
(b) She wants to know what Shatov knows about Lebyatkin.
(c) She wants to know who she can borrow money from.
(d) She wants to know when her son is coming back home.

2. Why does Lisa approach Shatov?
(a) She wants him to write a letter to her son.
(b) She wants him to find her a husband.
(c) She wants him to join a business venture.
(d) She wants him to lend her money.

3. Why does Stavrogin plan to duel Gaganov?
(a) Gaganov had threatened to take Mary Lebyatkin away from Stavrogin.
(b) Gaganov's father had been an enemy of Stavrogin's father's.
(c) Gaganov had threatened to evict Mrs. Stavrogin from her estate.
(d) Gaganov had been insulting Stavrogin.

4. What has Peter Verkhovensky been doing in the week since the confrontations at Mrs. Stavrogin's house?
(a) Plotting to kill Stavrogin.
(b) Defending Nicholas Stavrogin's reputation.
(c) Spreading rumors about what took place there.
(d) Defending Miss Lebyatkin's reputation.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Kirilov?

3. What is Mrs. Stavrogin's feeling about the fête?

4. What do we learn from Stavrogin's confrontation with Shatov?

5. What outrageous act does a local lieutenant commit?

(see the answer key)

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