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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Verkhovensky hear that the rumor he heard about Dasha is true?
(a) From Lebyatkin.
(b) From Liputin and a friend of Peter's.
(c) From Shatov.
(d) From Dasha and Mrs. Stavrogin.

2. What does Stavrogin tell Peter he is planning to do?
(a) Propose to Lisa Tushin.
(b) Start an uprising.
(c) Divorce Mary Lebyatkin.
(d) Leave for Paris.

3. What would normally happen to youth who behave as these youth are behaving?
(a) They would work for the candidate who won.
(b) They would be rewarded with status in the church.
(c) They would be sacrificed for the country in war.
(d) They would be sent to Siberia.

4. Whom does Mrs. Stavrogin invite into the conversation that starts Chapter 5?
(a) Verkhovensky.
(b) Nicholas and Dasha.
(c) Lisa Tushin.
(d) Dasha and the Drozdovs.

5. Who is Nicholas Stavrogin's tutor?
(a) Liputin.
(b) Verkhovensky.
(c) Shatov.
(d) Virginsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kirilov's involvement in Stavrogin's plan?

2. In what way do Virginsky and Shatov resemble one another?

3. What happened to the money that Nicholas gives to Captain Lebyatkin for Mary?

4. What are Mrs. Lembke's social aspirations?

5. What is Stepan Verkhovensky's employment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Gaganov's relationship with Stavrogin?

2. What happens to Stepan at the inn?

3. What objections are raised to murdering Shatov, and who raises them?

4. How are Stavrogin and Lisa getting along the morning after the night they spent together?

5. What do Lisa Tushin and Kaptain Lebyatkin have in common?

6. Describe Mrs. Stavrogin's relationship with Verkhovensky.

7. What do we know about the poem, A Noble Character?

8. How does Stepan Verhovensky feel about Verkhovensky's marriage to Dasha?

9. What injuries are inflicted during the duel?

10. How does Stavrogin try to avoid the duel with Gaganov?

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