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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the audience respond to Karminazov's reading?
(a) They are bored.
(b) They sing Karminazov's praises.
(c) They weep at the beauty of it.
(d) They begin to riot.

2. The first chapter of Part 3 is set the day after what?
(a) Shatov's wife returns.
(b) Peter Verkhvensky's house being searched.
(c) The factory riot.
(d) The meeting at Virginsky's.

3. Who does the chief of police begin to arrest?
(a) The people who set fire to the hall.
(b) The people who complain about the lack of food.
(c) The people who bring alcohol into the fête.
(d) The people who disseminate radical literature.

4. Who had a hand in manipulating Lisa to be with Stavrogin?
(a) Peter.
(b) Liputin.
(c) Virginsky.
(d) Shatov.

5. What is the narrator's response to Stepan Verkhovensky's reaction to the search of Peter's house?
(a) He is baffled.
(b) He is worried.
(c) He is intimidated.
(d) He is determined to bring Peter to justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shows up to talk with Shatov after Shatov's wife returns?

2. What happens to Stavrogin as the novel concludes?

3. Whom does Stavrogin defend from Peter?

4. How has public opinion shifted on the eve of the fête?

5. What does Stavrogin want Fedka to do?

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