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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had some poor people done to prepare for the fête?
(a) Moved away to make room for Lembke's guests.
(b) Broken into the banquet hall.
(c) Stolen money from Lembke.
(d) Pawned their belongings to buy gowns.

2. What happens to the swine in the story from Luke?
(a) They are disemboweled and scattered around the town after Jesus fills them with devils.
(b) They drown after Jesus fills them with devils.
(c) They run wild and ruin the town after Jesus fills them with devils.
(d) They are killed and eaten after Jesus fills them with devils.

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

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

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

6. Who kills Kirilov?
(a) Peter.
(b) He kills himself.
(c) Liputin.
(d) Shatov.

7. What does Shatov have to do in order to leave the group of radicals peacefully?
(a) Reveal the hiding place of the printing press.
(b) Renounce his association with them publicly.
(c) Swear loyalty to the radicals' ideals.
(d) Leave town and leave his property to the radicals.

8. Why is The Possessed an inaccurate transposition of the story of the swine in Luke?
(a) The devils that haunt Russia are not as easy to cast out as Peter and his radicals.
(b) Russia's tumultuous revolution dwarfs the revolutionary action of the novel.
(c) The devils reside in the human heart, and can never be cast out completely.
(d) The devils are more destructive in the story, and also more difficult to control.

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

10. Whom does Lisa find after she leaves Stavrogin's?
(a) Shatov.
(b) Peter.
(c) Liputin.
(d) Drozdov.

11. Who does the chief of police begin to arrest?
(a) The people who bring alcohol into the fête.
(b) The people who disseminate radical literature.
(c) The people who complain about the lack of food.
(d) The people who set fire to the hall.

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

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

14. What resonance does the story of the swine from Luke have with the novel?
(a) Dostoevsky appears to believe that revolutionaries are possessed by demons.
(b) Dostoevsky appears to believe that educated people are possessed by demons.
(c) Dostoevsky appears to believe that Russia is possessed by demons.
(d) Dostoevsky appears to believe that lovers are possessed by demons.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long had Shatov's wife been gone before she returns?

2. What effect does the birth of Shatov's child have on him?

3. What have Liputin and Fedka been doing at the Spigulin factory?

4. What does Stepan ask of the police during the search?

5. Who had a hand in manipulating Lisa to be with Stavrogin?

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