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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the townspeople think the Lebyatkins were killed?
(a) To limit the radicals' liabilities.
(b) To free Stavrogin to have his affair with Lisa Tushin.
(c) To punish them for blackmailing the radical group.
(d) To avenge their persecution of the aristocrats.

2. Whom does Lisa find after she leaves Stavrogin's?
(a) Peter.
(b) Shatov.
(c) Liputin.
(d) Drozdov.

3. What does Stepan Verkhovensky have to work up his courage to do?
(a) Flee to Germany.
(b) Ask Mrs. Stavrogin to marry him.
(c) Publish his radical tract.
(d) Visit Lembke to find out why he is being searched.

4. What resonance does the story of the swine from Luke have with the novel?
(a) Dostoevsky appears to believe that Russia is possessed by demons.
(b) Dostoevsky appears to believe that lovers are possessed by demons.
(c) Dostoevsky appears to believe that educated people are possessed by demons.
(d) Dostoevsky appears to believe that revolutionaries are possessed by demons.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who chases after Lisa when she leaves Stavrogin's house?

2. Why is The Possessed an inaccurate transposition of the story of the swine in Luke?

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

4. Who does Peter allow into the fête?

5. Why is Lisa Tushin killed?

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