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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Chapter 1, Night and Chapter 2, Night Continued.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Stepan Verkhovensky agitated about at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) His wife's pregnancy.
(b) Marriage to Dasha.
(c) His son's debts.
(d) His father's return.

3. How does Nicholas Stavrogin kill a man?
(a) Accidentally, when his horse trampled the man.
(b) In a duel.
(c) In self defense, when he was being robbed.
(d) He poisoned the man who had killed his father.

4. Who has been in hiding for the week after the confrontations at Mrs. Stavrogin's?
(a) Mrs. Stavrogin.
(b) Captain Lebyatkin and his sister.
(c) Shatov and Nicholas Stavrogin.
(d) Liputin.

5. What imputation does Liputin make about Nicholas Stavrogin in his conversation with Kerkhovensky?
(a) That Nicholas is mad.
(b) That Nicholas is disreputable.
(c) That Nicholas is dying.
(d) That Nicholas is a radical agitator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What belief does Kirilov profess to Stavrogin?

2. What consequence does Stavrogin suffer after he is punched in the face?

3. What does Lebyatkin ask Lisa in a letter?

4. What is Peter planning throughout Part II of The Possessed?

5. Who else arrives in Chapter 5 and takes part in Mrs. Stavrogin's conversation?

(see the answer key)

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