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

2. What does Myshkin tell General Tephanchin when he asks Myshkin about Nastassya?
(a) Myshkin says Nastassya is bewilderingly lovely.
(b) Myshkin says Nastassya is kind and misunderstood.
(c) Myshkin says Nastassya is insane.
(d) Myshkin says Nastassya no longer interests him.

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

4. Who does Myshkin stop one of the officer friends of the Yephanshins from hitting?
(a) Madam Yephanchin.
(b) Nastassya.
(c) Radomsky.
(d) Aglaya.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Radomsky's view of liberalism?

2. What does Hippolite mention seeing in a dream?

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

4. When Hippolite wakes at Myshkin's celebration, how long does a party member say he's been asleep?

5. Where does Myshkin recuperate from his seizure?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Madam Yephanchin react, after Burdovsky and his companions object to the information Ganja reveals about Burdovsky?

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

6. How does General Ivolgin act when he talks to Myshkin after his argument with Lebedev?

7. Why does Hippolite want to kill himself?

8. What leads up to the violence in the park?

9. How does Myshkin contradict what Aglaya has told him about Ganja?

10. What does Keller ask Myshkin for?

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