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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Stavrogin catches up with Peter, what does Peter suggest to him?
(a) That Lebyatkin plans to blackmail Stavrogin.
(b) That the police have been watching him.
(c) That Shatov is plotting against him.
(d) That the flood in the mine was planned.

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

3. Why was it a mistake to charge a high price for the fête?
(a) The people expected to be entertained.
(b) Expensive tickets excluded the writers.
(c) No one could afford to come.
(d) The people who came wanted food.

4. Where does Stepan Verkhovensky set off for after the fête?
(a) He is taking the train to Moscow.
(b) He is taking a coach back to Mrs. Stavrogin's.
(c) He is taking the train to St. Petersburg.
(d) He is walking across Russia.

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

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

7. Which revolutionary dissociates himself from murder as a strategy?
(a) Shigalyov.
(b) Virginsky.
(c) Peter Verkhovensky.
(d) Shatov.

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

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

10. What does Stavrogin look for and not find in the final chapters?
(a) Just punishment.
(b) His mother's forgiveness.
(c) God.
(d) A good woman's love.

11. What is Shigalyov's plan for the new social organization?
(a) Liberate the peasants.
(b) Abolish industrialism and return to farming.
(c) Enslave 90% of humanity.
(d) Eliminate the aristocracy.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What led to the release of the demons in Russia in the nineteenth century?

2. Who do the townspeople believe killed Mary and Captain Lebyatkin?

3. What had some poor people done to prepare for the fête?

4. Why is Lisa Tushin killed?

5. What does Stavrogin believe in?

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