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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What mistake does Myshkin make when he leaves Rogozhin?
(a) He goes the wrong way.
(b) He forgest he's leaving and comes back.
(c) He gets into the wrong carriage.
(d) He forgets to open the door.

2. What does Nastassya do with Rogozhin's money?
(a) She throws it into the street.
(b) She tears it up.
(c) She throws it in the fire.
(d) She gives it to Myshkin.

3. Who does Nastassya expect to try to get the money?
(a) Totsky.
(b) Ganja.
(c) Yephanchin.
(d) Ferdyshchenko.

4. At the beginning of the first chapter, where are the men in the train traveling to?
(a) Belgrade.
(b) Moscow.
(c) St. Petersburg.
(d) Kiev.

5. What does the story Ferdyshchenko describes involve stealing?
(a) Money.
(b) Jewelry.
(c) Food.
(d) Clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ganja do when Madam Yephanchin confronts him about what she suspects her husband is doing behind her back?

2. What does Rogozhin's mother do to Myshkin?

3. How does Nastassya react to Rogozhin's arrival?

4. Where does Myshkin go to claim his inheritance?

5. Who gives Aglaya a letter from Myshkin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Yephanchin say that he did to make up for his guilty feelings?

2. What does Ferdyshchenko describe doing to make sure someone else is blamed for his own theft?

3. What wrongs does Ganja accuse Myshkin of during this section?

4. What does Nastassya ask Myshkin, after hearing the stories of the men at the party?

5. How does Nastassya react to Rogozhin's offer of a present?

6. How does the footman treat Prince Myshkin when he first arrives at the Yephanchins' house?

7. What does Myshkin predict about Rogozhin and Nastassya Filippovna?

8. How does Madam Yephanchin react to Myshkin going off to collect his inheritance?

9. How did Rogozhin become estranged from his father?

10. Why is Ganja marrying Nastassya?

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