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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Chapter 9, Stepan Verkhovensky is Raided and Chapter 10, Filibusters, A Fateful Morning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Peter ask his father in front of the group?
(a) Whether his father taught Nicholas Stavrogin how to treat women
(b) Whether he wants him to save his father from Dasha.
(c) Whether Dasha was really seduced in Switzerland.
(d) Whether he really intends to get Mrs. Stavrogin's money.

2. What is Stepan Verkhovensky's relationship with Mrs. Stavrogin?
(a) They are enemies.
(b) They are married.
(c) They are lovers.
(d) He lives with her.

3. Who is Nicholas Stavrogin's tutor?
(a) Shatov.
(b) Verkhovensky.
(c) Liputin.
(d) Virginsky.

4. Who alone knows the purpose of the meeting at Virginsky's house?
(a) Virginsky.
(b) Mrs. Stavrogin.
(c) Liputin.
(d) Peter Verkhovensky.

5. What does Stepan think about marriage?
(a) He thinks it is an outdated institution.
(b) He misses being married.
(c) He thinks it will corrupt him.
(d) He thinks it is every man's duty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who acts as Gaganov's second in the duel?

2. Who carries out the raid on Peter's house?

3. What is Peter predicting in the time after the confrontation at Mrs. Stavrogin's house?

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

5. What does Mrs. Stavrogin ask her son when he arrives?

(see the answer key)

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