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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 3, Another Man's Sins and Chapter 4, The Cripple.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What venture does Lisa approach Shatov for help with?
(a) Finding a job for her son.
(b) Finding a husband for her and a father for her girls.
(c) Getting herself out of debt so she can buy a cottage.
(d) Publishing a yearly compendium of articles.

2. Who is on his way to visit at the end of the second chapter?
(a) Stavrogin's father.
(b) Shatov's father.
(c) Verkhovensky's son.
(d) Verkhovensky's father.

3. What does Stepan ask Liputin about at their meeting?
(a) Liputin's encounters with Mrs. Stavrogin.
(b) Nicholas Stavrogin's political opinions.
(c) Dasha's former engagements.
(d) Peter Verkhovensky's studies.

4. What is Captain Lebyatkin's reputation?
(a) He is said to drink and beat his sister.
(b) He is said to be honest and upstanding.
(c) He is said to gamble and corrupt young women.
(d) He is said to have killed a man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is The Possessed set?

2. In what way do Virginsky and Shatov resemble one another?

3. Who is Liputin?

4. How does the Verkhovensky circle feel about Nicholas Stavrogin?

5. What are Verkhovensky's political views?

(see the answer key)

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