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

3. What does Lisa overhear of Stavrogin's conversation with Peter?
(a) She hears that Stavrogin killed Mary and Captain Lebyatkin.
(b) She hears that Fedka 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What does Stavrogin believe in?
(a) The right of the aristocrats to rule.
(b) The governing potential of new industries.
(c) The value of ancient farming methods.
(d) The equality of slaves.

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

14. What kind of poem does Liputin read to the crowd?
(a) An obscene farce.
(b) A call for revolution.
(c) A pastoral idyll.
(d) A patriotic ode.

15. 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) An arrest warrant that has been issued for him.
(c) A raid that is planned for his house.
(d) A letter that might expose the group.