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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Does Nastassya accept Myshkin's proposal?
(a) No, she accepts Rogozhin immediately.
(b) Yes, and she leaves with him.
(c) Yes, but then she almost immediately leavs with Rogozhin.
(d) No, she accepts no one's proposal.

2. Who does the General suggest that Prince Myshkin stay with?
(a) Ganja.
(b) Totsky.
(c) The Yephanchins.
(d) Nastassya Filippovna.

3. Whose death does Yephanchin tell a story about?
(a) His schoolteacher.
(b) His mother.
(c) His landlady.
(d) His sister.

4. What is Myshkin's explanation for why Nastassya left Rogozhin?
(a) She can't abide the idea of marrying anyone.
(b) She wants more money than Rogozhin can give her.
(c) She can't deal with Rogozhin's paranoia.
(d) She is secretly in love with someone else.

5. What does Myshkin pick up without thinking about it, while he is talking to Rogozhin?
(a) A lighter.
(b) A knife.
(c) A rope.
(d) A gun.

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

7. Who is at the door at Ganja's home, when Myshkin answers it?
(a) Nastassya Flippovna.
(b) General Yephanchin.
(c) Aglaya.
(d) Madam Yephanchin.

8. What does Aglaya ask Myshkin to do?
(a) Give her a photograph.
(b) Take her for a carriage ride.
(c) Give her a lock of hair.
(d) Write in her album.

9. What is the General's plan for his daughter Aglaya?
(a) He plans her to be educated as an artist.
(b) He plans her to be educated as a teacher.
(c) He plans her to marry a rich man.
(d) He plans her to be sent to a convent.

10. What is Rogozhin's house like?
(a) Small and bright.
(b) Small and gloomy.
(c) Large and gloomy.
(d) Large and bright.

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

12. Who does Ganja ask Myshkin to deliver a secret letter to?
(a) Aglaya.
(b) Nastassya Filippovna.
(c) Madam Yephachin.
(d) General Yephachin.

13. How does Myshkin react when Ganja calls him an idiot?
(a) Unconcernedly.
(b) Angrily.
(c) Happily.
(d) Sadly.

14. What happens to Ganja's father while Myshkin is away?
(a) Ganja's father is arrested for public indecency.
(b) Ganja's father dies of alcohol poisoning.
(c) Ganja's father falls ill and is in the hospital.
(d) Ganja's father is put into debtor's prison.

15. What does Myshkin learn about Nastassya's engagement to Rogozhin?
(a) Nastassya is rumored to have left Rogozhin on their wedding day.
(b) Nastassya is rumored to have married Rogozhin and left the country with him.
(c) Nastassya is rumored to have run off with Rogozhin without marrying him.
(d) Nastassya is rumored to have married Rogozhin and then left him a week later.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Ganja and his family argue about?

2. What is Myshkin's reaction to Rogozhin's marriage proposal?

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

4. What does General Ivolgin do, after promising to bring Myshkin to see Nastassya?

5. What does Prince Myshkin smoke?

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