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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hippolite do when Myshkin tells him to stop reading?
(a) Hippolite continues to read, despite Myshkin's plea.
(b) Hippolite reads louder so he is shouting in Myshkin's ear.
(c) Hippolite stops reading but starts again a moment later.
(d) Hippolite stops reading.

2. How does Ganja feel about HIppolite?
(a) Ganja loves Hippolite as a brother.
(b) Ganja admires Hippolite.
(c) Ganja doesn't care about Hippolite.
(d) Ganja hates Hippolite.

3. What does Myshkin offer Burdovsky?
(a) A country house.
(b) 10,000 roubles.
(c) A letter of apology.
(d) A gold cross.

4. When Myshkin asks about Lebedev's missing money, where does Lebedev tell Myshkin he found the money?
(a) Beneath the seat of a carriage.
(b) In a pot.
(c) Under his chair.
(d) In his wallet.

5. What does Koyla ask his father to do?
(a) Leave the city with Koyla.
(b) Come home.
(c) Find a job.
(d) Apologize to Ganja.

6. What does the note Varya finds on Ganja's desk ask for?
(a) A loan.
(b) Friendship.
(c) A favor.
(d) A meeting.

7. What phrase did Koyla overhear Aglaya say while she was reading Don Quixote?
(a) Poor knight.
(b) Arrows of adversary.
(c) Stern order of chivalry.
(d) Tilting at windmills.

8. Who tells Myshkin that the duel with the officer has been called off?
(a) Lebedev.
(b) Radomsky.
(c) Madame Yephanchin.
(d) Hippolite.

9. How does Madam Yephanchin feel about the Prince's visitors?
(a) She is envious of the people who are visiting Myshkin.
(b) She likes the people who are visiting Myshkin.
(c) She is bored with the people who are visiting Myshkin.
(d) She dislikes the people who are visiting Myshkin.

10. What illness does Hippolite have?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Hemophilia.
(c) Chilblain.
(d) Dropsy.

11. What is the tale Lebedev tells at Myshkin's celebration about?
(a) A king being poisoned.
(b) Monks turning to cannibalism.
(c) Mountaineers who kill each other in competition.
(d) Sailors stranded on an island.

12. When Hippolite wakes at Myshkin's celebration, how long does a party member say he's been asleep?
(a) One hour.
(b) Seven minutes.
(c) Twenty minutes.
(d) Forty-two minutes.

13. What does Ganja say happened to Burdovsky's real father?
(a) He died.
(b) He is in an insane asylum.
(c) He went to prison.
(d) He ran away.

14. What does Ganja tell Varya he wants to do at the beginning of Part IV?
(a) Invite Myshkin to come stay with them.
(b) Help Varya and her husband move out on their own.
(c) Get payment on the loan he mae to Varya.
(d) Throw Ganja's father out of the house.

15. What is Hippolite's response to Madam Yephanchin's anger?
(a) He cries.
(b) He yells at her.
(c) He storms out of the room.
(d) He laughs.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Hippolite plan to kill himself?

2. What other literary work does the phrase Aglaya said bring up?

3. When Nastassya sees Myshkin at the end of Chapter VI, what does she do?

4. What is Madam Yephanchin's position about the possibility of Myshkin marrying her daughter Aglaya?

5. How long does Ganja tell Myshkin that Nastassya has been in town?

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