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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who shows up to talk with Shatov after Shatov's wife returns?
(a) Fedka.
(b) Virginsky.
(c) Erkel.
(d) Peter.

3. What crime is Fedka implicated in?
(a) Arson.
(b) Murder.
(c) Theft.
(d) Treason.

4. 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.

5. Where do Lisa and the man she meets rush off to after they meet?
(a) They go to Lembke's.
(b) They go to Mrs. Stavrogin's.
(c) They go to Shatov's.
(d) They go to see the people who were murdered.

6. What is the real purpose of the gathering at Virginsky's house?
(a) A literary club meeting.
(b) A radical political meeting.
(c) Planning to overthrow the government.
(d) A planning meeting for Mrs. Lembke's fête.

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

8. What does Lisa Tushin challenge Stavrogin to do?
(a) Get Lebyatkin to stop writing her letters.
(b) Murder Mary and Captain Lebyatkin.
(c) Murder his mother.
(d) Divorce Mary Lebyatkin.

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

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

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

12. How do the revolutionaries dispose of Shatov's body?
(a) They tie rocks to his feet and throw his body in the pond.
(b) They bury him in the woods.
(c) They cut up his body and burn him.
(d) They throw him the river.

13. Who do the townspeople believe killed Mary and Captain Lebyatkin?
(a) Stavrogin.
(b) Shatov.
(c) Liputin.
(d) Fedka.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the swine in the story from Luke?

2. Who takes the stage after Stepan Verkhovensky?

3. What do the police take from Peter Verkhovensky's house?

4. Who carries out the raid on Peter's house?

5. Which one of these characters is NOT in Peter's secret group?

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