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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 is Stepan Verkhovensky's employment?
(a) He tutors Mrs. Stavrogin's son.
(b) He is a local bureaucrat.
(c) He is a social researcher.
(d) He is an elected official.

2. What is Peter predicting in the time after the confrontation at Mrs. Stavrogin's house?
(a) That Nicholas will kill Shatov.
(b) That he will incite riots and protests.
(c) That Nicholas will be killed.
(d) That he will bomb a prominent government location.

3. What does Stavrogin do when it is his turn to shoot?
(a) Shoots in the air.
(b) Shoots Gaganov in the eye.
(c) Aims for Gaganov's heart but misses.
(d) Hits Gaganov's finger.

4. Who acts as Gaganov's second in the duel?
(a) Mr. Drozdov.
(b) Liputin.
(c) Mr. Lemke.
(d) Shatov.

5. Who is Mr. Lembke?
(a) A German member of the elite.
(b) A judge in the district where Stavrogin dueled.
(c) Captain Lebyatkin's brother-in-law.
(d) Mrs. Stavrogin's lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nicholas' relationship with Dasha, according to Liputin?

2. In whose house is Peter spreading rumors in the days before the fête?

3. What did Nicholas think of Mary Lebyatkin after he got to know her?

4. When does Part II, Chapter 3 begin?

5. Whom does Mrs. Stavrogin invite into the conversation that starts Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Verkhovensky's status in Russian society?

2. What plans does Peter seem to be making at the end of Part II, Chapter 4?

3. What condition does Julia Lembke impose on invitations to the fête she is planning for the town?

4. What happens when Peter mentions that Stepan believes that Dasha has fallen into disrepute in Switzerland?

5. What business does Peter conduct with Kirilov in the raining cold of the night?

6. What is Mrs. Stavrogin's response to Stepan Verkhovensky's letter to Peter about Dasha?

7. Describe Nicholas Stavrogin's status in Russian society.

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

9. What happens to Lisa after she hears about Stavrogin's role in Mary and the Captain's murder?

10. What does Stavrogin tell Dasha after the duel?

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