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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Verkhovensky ashamed of?
(a) He is ashamed of his students' mediocre performance at university.
(b) He is ashamed of Dasha's ignorance and lack of good sense.
(c) He is ashamed of Mrs. Stavrogin's control over his liberty.
(d) He is ashamed of being asked to marry Dasha to hide her past.

2. Whom does Mrs. Lembke befriend?
(a) Peter Verkhovensky.
(b) Stepan Verkhovensky.
(c) Liputin.
(d) Shatov.

3. What does Kirilov say to Gaganov the morning before the duel?
(a) He threatens to alert the authorities about the duel.
(b) He offers Gaganov money to call off the duel.
(c) He insults Gaganov.
(d) He repeats Stavrogin's apology.

4. What injury is inflicted during the duel?
(a) Stavrogin kills Gaganov.
(b) No injuries are inflicted.
(c) Gaganov seriously wounds Stavrogin.
(d) Stavrogin is wounded on the finger.

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

6. What does Lebyatkin ask Lisa in a letter?
(a) He asks her to work for him in his house.
(b) He asks her for money.
(c) He asks her to send the money she owes him.
(d) He asks her to marry him.

7. Who is Kirilov?
(a) A local official and former political prisoner.
(b) A friend of Peter Verkhovensky and Nicholas Stavrogin's.
(c) A political agitator from Moscow.
(d) A friend of Shatov's and Mrs. Stavrogin's neighbor.

8. What is Peter planning throughout Part II of The Possessed?
(a) To kill Shatov and Liputin.
(b) To leave for Moscow.
(c) Marry Mary Lebyatkin.
(d) An uprising.

9. Whose influence has Mr. Lembke come under?
(a) Mrs. Stavrogin's.
(b) His wife's.
(c) His son's.
(d) Peter Verkhovensky's.

10. What would normally happen to youth who behave as these youth are behaving?
(a) They would be sent to Siberia.
(b) They would be rewarded with status in the church.
(c) They would work for the candidate who won.
(d) They would be sacrificed for the country in war.

11. Why is Nicholas Stavrogin demoted?
(a) Because he stole from another officer.
(b) Because of his gambling debts.
(c) Because he fought a duel.
(d) Because of insubordination.

12. Who else arrives in Chapter 5 and takes part in Mrs. Stavrogin's conversation?
(a) Stepan Verkhovensky and Lisa Tushin.
(b) Mary Lebyatkin and Mrs. Drozdov.
(c) Shatov and Liputin.
(d) Peter Verkhovensky and Captain Lebyatkin.

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

14. What condition does Mrs. Lembke impose on people who want to come to her party?
(a) Guests must pledge loyalty to the Czar.
(b) Guests must volunteer to subvert the rich.
(c) Guests must purchase a subscription to her new literary magazine.
(d) Guests must read a radical essay by Peter Verkhovensky.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has been in hiding for the week after the confrontations at Mrs. Stavrogin's?

2. What was Nicholas' first impression of Mary Lebyatkin?

3. Who does Lebyatkin live with?

4. What imputation does Liputin make about Nicholas Stavrogin in his conversation with Kerkhovensky?

5. How many shots does each duelist get to take?

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