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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Lisa want to leave Stavrogin at the beginning of the Part 3, Chapter 3?
(a) She wanted to report his murder to the police.
(b) Stavrogin told her he didn't love her.
(c) They have begun to quarrel.
(d) Stavrogin confessed to killing Mary.

2. How many people are in Peter Verkhovensky's secret group of radicals?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Ten.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Five.

3. For whom are the swine a metaphor in the story of Luke?
(a) Stavrogin and voluptuaries like him.
(b) Captain and Mary Lebyatkin.
(c) Peter and his revolutionaries.
(d) Mrs. Lembke and her young radicals.

4. What does Stavrogin want Fedka to do?
(a) Kill Mary and Captain Lebyatkin.
(b) Start a riot.
(c) Kill Shatov.
(d) Return to prison.

5. What happens to Stavrogin as the novel concludes?
(a) He is imprisoned for Mary's murder.
(b) He commits suicide.
(c) He returns to his mother's home.
(d) He returns to the military and moves away.

6. What have Lisa and Stavrogin done as Chapter 3 of Part 3 begins?
(a) Burned the town.
(b) Stolen money from Mrs. Lembke.
(c) Run away to Moscow.
(d) Spent the night together.

7. What is the narrator's response to Stepan Verkhovensky's reaction to the search of Peter's house?
(a) He is intimidated.
(b) He is worried.
(c) He is baffled.
(d) He is determined to bring Peter to justice.

8. What does Lisa overhear of Stavrogin's conversation with Peter?
(a) She hears that Fedka killed Mary and Captain Lebyatkin.
(b) She hears that Stavrogin killed Mary and Captain Lebyatkin.
(c) She hears that Stavrogin knows who killed Mary and Captain Lebyatkin.
(d) She hears taht Peter killed Mary and Captain Lebyatkin.

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

10. What is the overall message of The Possessed?
(a) Russia is in the hands of loving protectors like Stepan Verkhovensky.
(b) Conspiracy against the government is always fruitless.
(c) Tyrannical monarchy will bring about its own downfall.
(d) Russia is possessed with demons.

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

12. What does Virginsky say to the radicals after Shatov's wife gives birth?
(a) He tells them that Shatov will never inform on them now.
(b) He tells them that they should put down their plans and celebrate with Shatov and his wife.
(c) He tells them that Shatov has renounced all his association with radical ideals.
(d) He tells them that Shatov is more committed to revolution now than ever before.

13. Who kills Shatov?
(a) Liputin.
(b) Virginsky.
(c) Peter.
(d) Stavrogin.

14. Who takes the stage after Stepan Verkhovensky?
(a) Stavrogin.
(b) Julia Lembke.
(c) A mad professor.
(d) Liputin.

15. Where does Stepan Verkhovensky wander into in the beginning of Chapter 7 of Part 3?
(a) The Winter Palace in Moscow.
(b) The 'real Russia.'
(c) An anarchists' camp.
(d) A river.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Shatov ask Kirilov for after he discovers that his wife is pregnant?

2. Russia's salvation seems to reside where, in Dostoevsky's opinion?

3. Who alone knows the purpose of the meeting at Virginsky's house?

4. Whom does Stavrogin defend from Peter?

5. What does Lisa Tushin challenge Stavrogin to do?

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