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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. Why did Nicholas initially take an interest in Captain Lebyatkin?
(a) He was impressed by his opulence.
(b) He wanted to help Peter's friends.
(c) He found his buffoonish behavior amusing.
(d) He found his poverty heartbreaking.

2. What event results in an investigation that discovers radical literature?
(a) The publication of a radical poem.
(b) A flood in a mine.
(c) A cholera outbreak at a factory.
(d) An attack on a general's wife.

3. What does Stavrogin tell Peter he is planning to do?
(a) Divorce Mary Lebyatkin.
(b) Propose to Lisa Tushin.
(c) Leave for Paris.
(d) Start an uprising.

4. Whom does Lisa find after she leaves Stavrogin's?
(a) Drozdov.
(b) Shatov.
(c) Peter.
(d) Liputin.

5. Which topic is on the schedule of events for the fête?
(a) Modern agricultural techniques.
(b) The Sistine Madonna.
(c) Spirituality in modern life.
(d) Renaissance cathedrals.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first chapter of Part 3 is set the day after what?

2. What crime is Fedka implicated in?

3. What has Peter Verkhovensky been doing in the week since the confrontations at Mrs. Stavrogin's house?

4. Whom does Mrs. Stavrogin invite into the conversation that starts Chapter 5?

5. Why do the townspeople think the Lebyatkins were killed?

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