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

2. Who is Virginsky?
(a) A student of Verkhovensky's.
(b) A radical agitator.
(c) A local official.
(d) A professor at the university.

3. Whom does Mrs. Lembke befriend?
(a) Liputin.
(b) Peter Verkhovensky.
(c) Stepan Verkhovensky.
(d) Shatov.

4. Why does Lisa approach Shatov?
(a) She wants him to lend her money.
(b) She wants him to join a business venture.
(c) She wants him to find her a husband.
(d) She wants him to write a letter to her son.

5. How does Chapter 5 begin?
(a) With a confrontation between Mrs. Stavrogin, Nicholas Stavrogin and Captain Lebyatkin.
(b) With a confrontation between Mrs. Stavrogin, Virginsky and Dasha.
(c) With a declaration of love between Mrs. Stavrogin and Lebyatkin.
(d) With a confrontation between Mrs. Stavrogin, Lisa, Miss Lebyatkin and Verkhovensky, Shatov, and the narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is on his way to visit at the end of the second chapter?

2. What condition does Mrs. Lembke impose on people who want to come to her party?

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

4. What is Verkhovensky's status in Moscow and St. Petersburg society?

5. What does Nicholas ask his servant to help him do after Peter leaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Peter ask his father after he (Peter) has recounted the story of Stavrogin and Miss Lebyatkin?

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

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

4. Who dies as a result of Shatov's murder? Who is arrested?

5. What does Peter tell us about why Nicholas Stavrogin treated Miss Lebyatkin the way he did?

6. What is Shigalyov's new plan of social organization?

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

8. What is Peter's relationship with Stavrogin?

9. What does Mrs. Stavrogin find out about Nicholas' relationship with Mss Lebyatikin?

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

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