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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Madam Yephanchin's position about the possibility of Myshkin marrying her daughter Aglaya?
(a) She says Myshkin can only marry her daughter if he's no longer involved with Rogozhin.
(b) She doesn't care if Myshkin marries her daughter.
(c) She says Myshkin can never marry her daughter.
(d) She says Myshkin must marry her daughter.

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

3. Who does Aglaya tell her mother she is going to marry, when Madam Yephanchin interrupts Aglaya and Myshkin's meeting in the park?
(a) Myshkin.
(b) Ganja.
(c) Rogozhin.
(d) Lebedyev.

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

5. When the Prince and Rogozhin get back to Myshkin's house, what have a group of visitors gathered to celebrate?
(a) Myskin's birthday.
(b) Myshkin's inheritance.
(c) Myshkin's recovery.
(d) The retraction of the article.

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

7. Where does Aglaya say she comes some mornings at 7 o'clock?
(a) A green bench in the park.
(b) A small cafe on a street corner.
(c) An isolated stump in a field.
(d) A red newstand by the train station.

8. How does Hippolite plan to kill himself?
(a) By shooting himself.
(b) By poisoning himself.
(c) By jumping off a bridge.
(d) By hanging himself.

9. Why does Hippolite realize, after seeing Rogozhin in his room at night, that Rogozhin couldn't have been there?
(a) Hippolite had barred the door with a wardrobe.
(b) The servants had locked the doors.
(c) Rogozhin was away all night.
(d) Rogozhin had passed out in the foyer all night.

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

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

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

13. Who wrote the note that Varya finds on Ganja's desk?
(a) Myshkin.
(b) Aglaya.
(c) Ganja.
(d) Nastassya.

14. What does Lebedev expect Myshkin to do, now that he knows Lebedev was involved with the scandalous article?
(a) He expects Myshkin to kick him out.
(b) He expects Myshkin to stop being his friend.
(c) He expects Myshkin to sue him.
(d) He expects Myshkin to forgive him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ganja say happened to Burdovsky's real father?

2. How does Myshkin feel when he leaves the Yephanchin house at the end of Part IV, Chapter V?

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

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

5. When Myshkin asks about Lebedev's missing money, where does Lebedev tell Myshkin he found the money?

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