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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 is the name of Kolya's dog?
2. What does a town doctor say he remembers buying Mitya when he was a little boy during the trial?
3. Whose oration does the audience applaud at the end of Mitya's trial?
4. Who does the person who killed Fyodor say he did it for?
5. What does Ivan present from his pocket during his testimony in Mitya's trial?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the court refute the possibility of Smerdyakov killing Fyodor in Part 4, Book 12, Chapter 9?
2. How are Fetyukovich's attempts to accuse Smerdyakov received in Part 4, Book 12, Chapter 12?
3. How does the audience react while the jurors go into deliberation in Mitya's trial?
4. What does Smerdyakov confess to Ivan in Part 4, Book 11, Chapter 8?
5. What is the nature of Alyosha and Grushenka's discussion in Part 4, Book 11, Chapter 1?
6. What does Alyosha discover about a secret between Mitya and Ivan in Part 4, Book 11, Chapter 4?
7. How does Mitya react just after he is arrested for the death of his father?
8. How do Pyotr and Madame Khokhalakov act towards each other when they first meet?
9. What happens to Mitya after the police and prosecutors read his statement in Part 3, Book 9, Chapter 9?
10. How is Grushenka's testimony in Mitya's trial described?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast Alyosha and Mitya. What about the differences in these characters suggest who the protagonist will be?
Essay Topic 2
Examine the character, Smerdyakov. In what ways did the author set up Smerdyakov as an unstable character?
Essay Topic 3
One of the main themes presented in the book is the dynamic of the father-son relationship. Part 1.) In what way is the father-son relationship portrayed abnormally in the book? Part 2.) What might the author be saying about the importance of being a good father based on the outcome of Fyodor's fate in the book? Part 3.) What reason does the author have for portraying a more realistic and normal father-son dynamic in Ilyusha and the Captain?
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