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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Ch. VI - X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the General's wife react to his gift to Nastassya Filoppovna?
(a) She never found out about it.
(b) She was upset.
(c) She didn't care.
(d) She was happy.

2. What does Myshkin threaten to do, after Ganja calls him an idiot?
(a) Reveal what he's been doing to Madam Yephanchin.
(b) Fight Ganja in a duel of honor.
(c) Tell General Yephanchin what Ganja has said.
(d) Pay for his own lodgings elsewhere.

3. What state is Rogozhin in when he visits Ganja's house on Myshkin's first night there?
(a) He is drunk.
(b) He is injured and in need of a doctor.
(c) He is crying uncontrollably.
(d) He is exhausted and falling asleep.

4. How does the General describe the Prince to his wife?
(a) As a very ill and incapacitated man.
(b) As a pleasant, interesting man.
(c) As a very strange, unnatural man.
(d) As a happy-go-lucky, carefree man.

5. What does Ganja's father throw out a window in the story?
(a) A dog.
(b) An ashtray.
(c) A woman.
(d) A hat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ganja do when Madam Yephanchin confronts him about what she suspects her husband is doing behind her back?

2. What does Aglaya ask Myshkin to read?

3. What does Myshkin think of the picture of Nastassya Filippovna?

4. What is the General's opinion of Rogozhin?

5. At the beginning of the first chapter, where are the men in the train traveling to?

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