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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II Ch. I-V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Myshkin try to visit at the Scales hotel?
(a) Varya.
(b) Koyla.
(c) Lebedev.
(d) Ganja.

2. Whose house does Myshkin go to when he first arrives back in St. Petersburg?
(a) Lebedev's house.
(b) The Yephanchins' house.
(c) Ganja's house.
(d) Rogozhin's house.

3. What does Ganja ask Aglaya to do?
(a) Run away to marry Myshkin.
(b) Arrange a marriage for her sister.
(c) Prevent her mother from learning what her father is doing.
(d) Save him from marrying Nastassya.

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

5. What does Ganja do when Madam Yephanchin confronts him about what she suspects her husband is doing behind her back?
(a) He denies any knowledge of it.
(b) He promises to search her husband's papers for any evidence.
(c) He says that he shares her suspicions but doesn't know for a fact it's true.
(d) He admits that she is right.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the party react to Ferdyshchenko's story?

2. What does Prince Myshkin smoke?

3. What gift did the General buy Nastassya Filoppovna?

4. What is General Yephanchin's initial response to the Prince's request for help?

5. What does Myshkin pick up without thinking about it, while he is talking to Rogozhin?

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