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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What causes Mrs. Stavrogin to separate with Stepan Verkhovensky?
(a) Stepan's unconscionable behavior.
(b) Peter's antics about Dasha.
(c) Peter's insults.
(d) Stepan's radical views.

4. Who has been in hiding for the week after the confrontations at Mrs. Stavrogin's?
(a) Shatov and Nicholas Stavrogin.
(b) Captain Lebyatkin and his sister.
(c) Mrs. Stavrogin.
(d) Liputin.

5. What do we find out about Dasha after the duel?
(a) She is leaving with Captain Lebyatkin.
(b) She loves Stavrogin.
(c) She is dying.
(d) She is pregnant.

6. How has Shatov prepared to defend himself against Stavrogin?
(a) He bought a revolver.
(b) He hired bodyguards.
(c) He prayed.
(d) He hid himself.

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

8. What outrageous act does a local lieutenant commit?
(a) He kills himself and his fellow officers.
(b) He seduces a general's wife.
(c) He refuses to go to the Crimea with his regiment.
(d) He bites his general's ear.

9. Who punches Nicholas Stavrogin in the face?
(a) Mrs. Stavrogin.
(b) Shatov.
(c) Captain Lebyatkin.
(d) Peter Verkhovensky.

10. Who is Shatov?
(a) A local official.
(b) A former student of Verkhovensky's.
(c) A banker from Moscow.
(d) A local doctor.

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

12. What is Stepan Verkhovensky agitated about at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) His father's return.
(b) His son's debts.
(c) His wife's pregnancy.
(d) Marriage to Dasha.

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

14. Who acts as Gaganov's second in the duel?
(a) Mr. Lemke.
(b) Mr. Drozdov.
(c) Shatov.
(d) Liputin.

15. What is Julia Lembke's hope for the children?
(a) She hopes they succeed in their anarchistic plans.
(b) She hopes they are rewarded for their devotion.
(c) She hopes they are punished for their violence.
(d) She hopes to rehabilitate them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Captain Lebyatkin's reputation?

2. What does Stepan ask Liputin about at their meeting?

3. Who is Kirilov?

4. When does Part II, Chapter 3 begin?

5. What is Peter planning throughout Part II of The Possessed?

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