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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 games do Aglaya's sisters report that she played with her visitor?
(a) Chess and darts.
(b) Croquet and cards.
(c) Darts and croquet.
(d) Cards and chess.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Myshkin recuperate from his seizure?

2. To whom does Aglaya ask Koyla to give the animal she's bought?

3. What is the tale Lebedev tells at Myshkin's celebration about?

4. What entertainment do the Prince and the Yephanchins watch after they walk in the park?

5. What happens to General Ivolgin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the guests at the Yephanchins' react to Myshkin's response to Radomsky's political views?

2. What does Madam Yephanchin think about, as she brings Myshkin to her house?

3. How would Myshkin probably act, if he were in Lebedev's place in the disagreement between Lebedev and General Ivolgin?

4. What does Myskhin's view of dueling seem to be?

5. What is Ganja's attitude toward his father?

6. What does Keller ask Myshkin for?

7. Why does Burdovsky feel he is owed something from Myshkin?

8. How does Myshkin answer Nastassya's question to him, and what is Rogozhin's response?

9. What does Aglaya say to Myshkin, after her proposal to him?

10. What does Madam Yephanchin feel about her daughter's relationship with Myshkin?

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