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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Chapter 7, Stepan Verkhovensky's Last Pilgrimage and Chapter 8, Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What led to the release of the demons in Russia in the nineteenth century?
(a) The publication of Darwin's Origin of Species.
(b) Convulsions associated with modernization.
(c) The invention of the printing press.
(d) The invention of the railroad.

3. What accusation does Mrs. Stavrogin make of Stepan Verkhovensky?
(a) She accuses him of being a dilettante and a fraud.
(b) She accuses him of having seduced Dasha.
(c) She accuses him of stealing from her.
(d) She accuses him of conspiring against the government.

4. What is Stepan's impression of the confrontation that took place at Mrs. Stavrogin's house?
(a) That Peter had planned it all along.
(b) That Peter was out to assassinate people's characters.
(c) That Mrs. Stavrogin had let her son have too much rein.
(d) That Stavrogin needed to be taken down.

5. When does Part II, Chapter 3 begin?
(a) A week after the confrontation at Mrs. Stavrogin's house.
(b) The day of the duel between Stavrogin and Gaganov.
(c) The day after the duel between Stavrogin and Gaganov.
(d) The day of the uprising.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many previous marriages has Stepan Verkhovensky had?

2. Who is on the stage when Karminazov goes to speak?

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

4. What happens to the swine in the story from Luke?

5. What causes Mrs. Stavrogin to separate with Stepan Verkhovensky?

(see the answer key)

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