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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 flood in the mine was planned.
(c) That the police have been watching him.
(d) That Shatov is plotting against him.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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 enjoying their day off.
(c) They are organizing themselves for the new, post-revolutionary society.
(d) They are demanding the release of political prisoners.

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

9. Who chases after Lisa when she leaves Stavrogin's house?
(a) Shatov.
(b) Liputin.
(c) Stavrogin.
(d) Peter.

10. What effect does the birth of Shatov's child have on him?
(a) It renews his faith in God.
(b) It renews his commitment to revolutionary ideals.
(c) It fills him with forgiveness for his wife's infidelity.
(d) It fills him with dread for the world's sufferings.

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

12. Which one of these characters is NOT in Peter's secret group?
(a) Liputin.
(b) Lyamshin.
(c) Virginsky.
(d) Shatov.

13. 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.

14. Who does Peter blame for Mary and Captain Lebyatkin's murder?
(a) Fedka.
(b) Shatov.
(c) Stavrogin.
(d) Lisa.

15. 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 knows who killed Mary and Captain Lebyatkin.
(c) She hears taht Peter killed Mary and Captain Lebyatkin.
(d) She hears that Stavrogin killed Mary and Captain Lebyatkin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stepan Verkhovensky react to the search of Peter's house?

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

3. Why does Lisa want to leave Stavrogin at the beginning of the Part 3, Chapter 3?

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

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

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