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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Peter Verkhovensky concerned about when he rushes out of Virginsky's house?
(a) A letter that might expose the group.
(b) Getting his manuscript to the press in time for printing.
(c) An arrest warrant that has been issued for him.
(d) A raid that is planned for his house.

2. What is the real purpose of the gathering at Virginsky's house?
(a) A radical political meeting.
(b) Planning to overthrow the government.
(c) A literary club meeting.
(d) A planning meeting for Mrs. Lembke's fête.

3. What does Dostoevsky seem to believe is the problem with Russia?
(a) It is poisoned by its peasant spirituality.
(b) It is held back by its feudal past.
(c) It is ripe for a revolution but incapable of emerging from one.
(d) It is both attracted to and repulsed by industrial modernism.

4. What kind of poem does Liputin read to the crowd?
(a) An obscene farce.
(b) A pastoral idyll.
(c) A call for revolution.
(d) A patriotic ode.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Stepan Verkhovensky wander into in the beginning of Chapter 7 of Part 3?

2. How long had Shatov's wife been gone before she returns?

3. What effect does the birth of Shatov's child have on him?

4. What does Lisa overhear of Stavrogin's conversation with Peter?

5. What is Shigalyov's plan for the new social organization?

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