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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Chapter 3, The End of a Love Affair and Chapter 4, The Last Decision.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What plan does Mrs. Stavrogin make for Verhovensky?
(a) She asks him to tutor her son.
(b) She asks him to marry Dasha.
(c) She sends her Verkhovensky to get her son from prison.
(d) She asks him to bring her son home.

2. Who chases after Lisa when she leaves Stavrogin's house?
(a) Peter.
(b) Liputin.
(c) Stavrogin.
(d) Shatov.

3. What is Peter planning throughout Part II of The Possessed?
(a) An uprising.
(b) Marry Mary Lebyatkin.
(c) To kill Shatov and Liputin.
(d) To leave for Moscow.

4. Why is Lisa Tushin killed?
(a) She is killed accidentally when her carriage turns over.
(b) The police convict her of the murder of Captain and Mary Lebyatkin and execute her.
(c) The townspeople blame her for the murder of Captain and Mary Lebyatkin.
(d) She is killed by the radicals, who want to get to Stavrogin.

5. What did Nicholas think of Mary Lebyatkin after he got to know her?
(a) He thought she was a tease.
(b) He thought she was secretly malicious.
(c) He thought she was better than anyone he knew.
(d) He thought she was unredeemably lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would normally happen to youth who behave as these youth are behaving?

2. How does Stepan Verkhovensky react to the search of Peter's house?

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

4. How does Nicholas Stavrogin kill a man?

5. Why did Nicholas initially take an interest in Captain Lebyatkin?

(see the answer key)

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