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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stepan Verkhovensky find in his wanderings?
(a) Honest peasants.
(b) Alcoholism and despair.
(c) God.
(d) A good woman's love.

2. Who does Peter leave Virginsky's house to meet?
(a) His father.
(b) Captain Lebyatkin.
(c) Kirilov and Stavrogin.
(d) Lisa Tushin.

3. For whom are the swine a metaphor in the story of Luke?
(a) Peter and his revolutionaries.
(b) Stavrogin and voluptuaries like him.
(c) Captain and Mary Lebyatkin.
(d) Mrs. Lembke and her young radicals.

4. What does Stavrogin believe in?
(a) The right of the aristocrats to rule.
(b) The value of ancient farming methods.
(c) The governing potential of new industries.
(d) The equality of slaves.

5. Who takes the stage after Stepan Verkhovensky?
(a) Liputin.
(b) A mad professor.
(c) Stavrogin.
(d) Julia Lembke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had some poor people done to prepare for the fête?

2. What led to the release of the demons in Russia in the nineteenth century?

3. What does Lisa Tushin challenge Stavrogin to do?

4. Who is on the stage when Karminazov goes to speak?

5. What happens to the swine in the story from Luke?

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