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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 belief does Kirilov profess to Stavrogin?
(a) He believes that a man-god will preach happiness.
(b) He believes that man is eternally confounded by a split in his nature.
(c) He believes that man can only be known by his actions, not by his spirit.
(d) He believes that the students protestors are going to overthrow the government.

2. What does Nicholas ask his servant to help him do after Peter leaves?
(a) To convey his marriage proposal to Mary Lebyatkin.
(b) To leave the house without his mother knowing.
(c) To pay off some of his debts.
(d) To steal money from his mother.

3. What happened to the money that Nicholas gives to Captain Lebyatkin for Mary?
(a) The Captain left Mary alone and went to Moscow.
(b) The Captain got a house for himself and his sister.
(c) The Captain got Mary the medication she needed.
(d) The Captain spent it on drink.

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

5. Who is Lisa Tushin?
(a) A neighbor of Mrs. Stavrogin's.
(b) A woman who had a relationship with Nicholas.
(c) A seamstress.
(d) A schoolmistress in St. Petersburg.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With whom does Nicholas Stavrogin leave from his conversation with his mother?

3. What is Shigalyov's plan for the new social organization?

4. Who does Peter leave Virginsky's house to meet?

5. What reason does the narrator have for visiting Lembke?

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