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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lizaveta harm herself on that causes her to die?

2. Who do Madame Khokhlakov and her daughter reveal they have come to visit in Book 2, Chapter 4?

3. What does the person who wrote Alyosha a letter at the end of Part 1 profess in the letter?

4. What does Madame Khokhlakov tell Mitya that she has in mind for him to do that will make him a great man in Part 3?

5. Who does Mitya spend all of the money on that Katarina gave to him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Katarina and Grushenka's actions towards each other described in Part 1, Book 3, Chapter 10?

2. How does Captain Sneigiryov react when Alyosha gives him the 200 rubles from Katarina?

3. What does Mitya do with his dueling pistols in Part 3, Book 8, Chapter 4?

4. What is Alyosha deeply disturbed by regarding his meeting with Zosima in Part 1, Book 2, Chapter 1?

5. What is the nature of the poem Ivan says in Part 2, Book 5, Chapter 5?

6. How does Fyodor act while at the monastery to make himself endearing in Part 1, Book 2, Chapter 2?

7. What does Fyodor say he is afraid of regarding Grushenka in Part 2, Book 4, Chapter 2?

8. How does Zosima appear when Alyosha visits him in Part 2, Book 6, Chapter 1?

9. What does Katarina ask Alyosha to do with 200 rubles in Part 2, Book 4, Chapter 5?

10. What is the nature of Ivan and Smerdyakov's conversation in Part 2, Book 5, Chapter 6?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the Karamazov brothers with Ilyusha's family. What might the author be saying about the nature of the Karamazov family by making a direct comparison with Ilyusha's family?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the character Fyodor in the book. In what way does the author set up this character to be hated and not sympathized?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the nature of the inclusion of Zosima's teachings and recordings in the book. How might these recordings give spirituality and religion a voice?

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