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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does General Ivolgin say he is leaving Lebedev's house?
(a) Because he has found a better place to live.
(b) Because he and Lebedev are always arguing.
(c) Because Ganja has promised to take him back.
(d) Because he has fallen in love and wants to marry.

2. Who first points out the article about Myshkin in the newspaper?
(a) Madam Yephanchin.
(b) Burdovsky.
(c) Koyla.
(d) Hippolite.

3. Who does Madam Yephanchin wonder if Aglaya is seriously interested in, at the beginning of Part III?
(a) Myshkin and Ganja.
(b) Rogozhin and Myskin.
(c) Ganja and Radomsky.
(d) Radomsky and Rogozhin.

4. What has Varya been trying to do in her visits to the Yephanchins' house?
(a) Convince Adelaide to run away with Koyla.
(b) Get Aglaya to marry her brother.
(c) Win a favor from Madam Yephanchin.
(d) Convince General Yephanchin to forgive a loan.

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

6. What does Burdovsky want from Myshkin?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Money.
(c) Friendship.
(d) An apology.

7. To whom does Aglaya ask Koyla to give the animal she's bought?
(a) Ganja.
(b) General Yephanchin.
(c) Myshkin.
(d) Rogozhin.

8. Who is the first visitor who arrives, while Myshkin is recuperating?
(a) General Ivolgin.
(b) Ganja.
(c) Madam Yephanchin.
(d) Radomsky.

9. When Nastassya sees Myshkin at the end of Chapter VI, what does she do?
(a) Get down on her knees.
(b) Lay prone on the grass.
(c) Sit down on his lap.
(d) Stand above him on the stairs.

10. How does Myshkin react to the idea that someone stole Lebedev's money?
(a) Myshkin is secretly pleased.
(b) Myshkin is irritated.
(c) Myshkin is horrified.
(d) Myshkin doesn't care.

11. When does Hippolite plan to kill himself?
(a) At sunset.
(b) At sunrise.
(c) At noon.
(d) At midnight.

12. Nastassya has written Aglaya several letters that Aglaya shows Myshkin. What do these letters ask Aglaya to do?
(a) Steal a cross from Myshkin.
(b) Marry Myshkin.
(c) Stay away from Myshkin.
(d) Give Nastassya money.

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

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

15. What does Myshkin do while he is waiting for Aglaya on the park bench?
(a) He reads.
(b) He watches people and makes up stories about them.
(c) He talks to a stranger.
(d) He falls asleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ganja tell Varya he wants to do at the beginning of Part IV?

2. What does Myshkin tell General Tephanchin when he asks Myshkin about Nastassya?

3. What reason does Myshkin give Aglaya for him coming to Pavlovsk?

4. After Myshkin returns to the Yephanchins' house, following the walk in the park and the fight, what does Aglaya show Myshkin how to do?

5. At the beginning of Part III, Chapter VI, what decor from Rogozhin's home does Hippolite talk about?

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