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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. What injury is inflicted during the duel?
(a) No injuries are inflicted.
(b) Stavrogin is wounded on the finger.
(c) Stavrogin kills Gaganov.
(d) Gaganov seriously wounds Stavrogin.

2. How does Peter plan to instigate his father?
(a) He circulates rumors about Dasha.
(b) He tells Mrs. Stavrogin lies about his father.
(c) He tries to ruin Stavrogin's reputation.
(d) He tries to seduce Dasha himself.

3. What event results in an investigation that discovers radical literature?
(a) The publication of a radical poem.
(b) An attack on a general's wife.
(c) A cholera outbreak at a factory.
(d) A flood in a mine.

4. What plan does Mrs. Stavrogin make for Verhovensky?
(a) She asks him to marry Dasha.
(b) She sends her Verkhovensky to get her son from prison.
(c) She asks him to tutor her son.
(d) She asks him to bring her son home.

5. What do we learn from Stavrogin's confrontation with Shatov?
(a) That Mary Lebyatkin is Stavrogin's sister.
(b) That Stavrogin is married to Mary Lebyatkin.
(c) That Mary Lebyatkin is Stavrogin's half-sister.
(d) That Shatov is married to Lary Lebyatkin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Peter predicting in the time after the confrontation at Mrs. Stavrogin's house?

2. What belief does Kirilov profess to Stavrogin?

3. What do we find out about Dasha after the duel?

4. What is Stepan's impression of the confrontation that took place at Mrs. Stavrogin's house?

5. Who is Shatov?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to Stepan at the inn?

3. What does Peter tell us about Nicholas Stavrogin's relationship with Miss Lebyatkin?

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

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

6. What happens when Shatov shows up to meet Peter and Erkel?

7. What is the relationship between Mr. Lembke and Peter Verkhovensky?

8. What injuries are inflicted during the duel?

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

10. How many people end up involved in the conversation between Mrs. Stavrogin and Shatov at the beginning of Chapter 3 in Part I?

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