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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does the narrator have for visiting Lembke?
(a) He wants to testify against Peter Verkhovensky.
(b) He wants to know why he is being searched.
(c) He wants to arrange to get out of the country.
(d) He wants to prevent Stepan Verkhovensky from doing anything silly.

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

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

4. Who does Peter allow into the fête?
(a) Lower-class people.
(b) Radical agitators.
(c) Criminals and prostitutes.
(d) Writers and artists.

5. 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 revolutionaries are possessed by demons.
(d) Dostoevsky appears to believe that educated people are possessed by demons.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who carries out the raid on Peter's house?

3. Where does Stepan Verkhovensky set off for after the fête?

4. What have Liputin and Fedka been doing at the Spigulin factory?

5. When Stavrogin catches up with Peter, what does Peter suggest to him?

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