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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the townspeople think the Lebyatkins were killed?
(a) To avenge their persecution of the aristocrats.
(b) To punish them for blackmailing the radical group.
(c) To limit the radicals' liabilities.
(d) To free Stavrogin to have his affair with Lisa Tushin.

2. What does Stepan Verkhovensky have to work up his courage to do?
(a) Publish his radical tract.
(b) Ask Mrs. Stavrogin to marry him.
(c) Flee to Germany.
(d) Visit Lembke to find out why he is being searched.

3. What is Peter Verkhovensky concerned about when he rushes out of Virginsky's house?
(a) A letter that might expose the group.
(b) An arrest warrant that has been issued for him.
(c) Getting his manuscript to the press in time for printing.
(d) A raid that is planned for his house.

4. What does Stepan Verkhovensky find in his wanderings?
(a) God.
(b) Honest peasants.
(c) Alcoholism and despair.
(d) A good woman's love.

5. What does Shatov ask Kirilov for after he discovers that his wife is pregnant?
(a) Money for a divorce.
(b) Help leaving town.
(c) Money for a midwife.
(d) He asks Kirilov to raise the child.

6. Whom does Stavrogin defend from Peter?
(a) Shatov.
(b) Captain Leybatkin.
(c) Virginsky.
(d) Fedka.

7. How has public opinion shifted on the eve of the fête?
(a) The people are now in favor of change.
(b) It is now against Mrs. Lembke.
(c) The agitators have succeeded in turning the crowds against the government.
(d) The workers are anxious to disrupt the fête.

8. Who is attacked after the murder of Shatov?
(a) Liputin.
(b) Peter.
(c) Erkel.
(d) Virginsky.

9. Who had a hand in manipulating Lisa to be with Stavrogin?
(a) Shatov.
(b) Virginsky.
(c) Liputin.
(d) Peter.

10. Who is on the stage when Karminazov goes to speak?
(a) Shatov.
(b) Captain Lebyatkin.
(c) Stepan Verkhovensky.
(d) Liputin.

11. What does Dostoevsky seem to believe is the problem with Russia?
(a) It is both attracted to and repulsed by industrial modernism.
(b) It is held back by its feudal past.
(c) It is ripe for a revolution but incapable of emerging from one.
(d) It is poisoned by its peasant spirituality.

12. Why are workers from the Spigulin factory massing in the street?
(a) They are petitioning for the governor to intervene in a payment dispute.
(b) They are demanding the release of political prisoners.
(c) They are organizing themselves for the new, post-revolutionary society.
(d) They are enjoying their day off.

13. What do the police take from Peter Verkhovensky's house?
(a) Papers and books.
(b) Guns.
(c) Radical anarchists.
(d) Money.

14. What does Blum say about the search at Peter Verkhovensky's?
(a) Shatov had tipped the police off.
(b) It was a mistake.
(c) The police found what they were looking for.
(d) Virginsky had testified that Peter was the leader of the radical group.

15. Who does Peter allow into the fête?
(a) Lower-class people.
(b) Writers and artists.
(c) Radical agitators.
(d) Criminals and prostitutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the revolutionaries dispose of Shatov's body?

2. Where does Stepan Verkhovensky set off for after the fête?

3. For whom are the swine a metaphor in the story of Luke?

4. What does Lisa Tushin challenge Stavrogin to do?

5. What does Stavrogin want Fedka to do?

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