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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 begin to riot.
(c) They weep at the beauty of it.
(d) They sing Karminazov's praises.

2. Whom does Stavrogin defend from Peter?
(a) Captain Leybatkin.
(b) Fedka.
(c) Shatov.
(d) Virginsky.

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

4. What is the overall message of The Possessed?
(a) Conspiracy against the government is always fruitless.
(b) Tyrannical monarchy will bring about its own downfall.
(c) Russia is in the hands of loving protectors like Stepan Verkhovensky.
(d) Russia is possessed with demons.

5. What does Shatov have to do in order to leave the group of radicals peacefully?
(a) Reveal the hiding place of the printing press.
(b) Leave town and leave his property to the radicals.
(c) Swear loyalty to the radicals' ideals.
(d) Renounce his association with them publicly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stavrogin look for and not find in the final chapters?

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

3. Who kills Kirilov?

4. What does Stavrogin want Fedka to do?

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

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