View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Nastassya ask Myshkin?
(a) Whether he loves her.
(b) Whether he is happy.
(c) What he is thinking.
(d) When he is leaving.

4. Who does Lebedev think stole his missing money?
(a) Ferdyshchenko.
(b) General Yephanchin.
(c) Myshkin.
(d) Rogozhin.

5. Who does Ganja blame for Burdovsky's claim against Myshkin?
(a) Burdovsky's mother.
(b) Bankers.
(c) Lawyers.
(d) Government officials.

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

7. How does Myshkin feel when he leaves the Yephanchin house at the end of Part IV, Chapter V?
(a) Scared.
(b) Happy.
(c) Angry.
(d) Sad.

8. 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.

9. What does Hippolite say he is going to read?
(a) A newspaper article.
(b) A story.
(c) A letter.
(d) A poem.

10. How much money is Lebedev missing?
(a) 600 roubles.
(b) 200 roubles.
(c) 800 roubles.
(d) 400 roubles.

11. What reason does Myshkin give Aglaya for him coming to Pavlovsk?
(a) Myshkin says he came to rekindle his friendship with Rogozhin.
(b) Myshkin says he came to win Nastassya's love.
(c) Myshkin says he came to be near Aglaya.
(d) Myshkin says he came to get away from Moscow.

12. What does Aglaya change when she recites from a reading?
(a) Adjectives describing a book.
(b) Initials on a rosary.
(c) The name of a character.
(d) The location of a house.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to General Ivolgin?

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

3. What has Varya been trying to do in her visits to the Yephanchins' house?

4. How does the party react when Vera says Hippolite is going to kill himself?

5. What games do Aglaya's sisters report that she played with her visitor?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 539 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample