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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Koyla ask his father to do?
2. How does Myshkin feel when he leaves the Yephanchin house at the end of Part IV, Chapter V?
3. When Radomsky asks for Myshkin's friendship, what is Myshkin's response?
4. What does Myshkin say, when Aglaya asks him to marry her in Part IV, Chapter V?
5. What animal does Aglaya buy from Koyla?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Madam Yephanchin react, after Burdovsky and his companions object to the information Ganja reveals about Burdovsky?
2. What leads up to the violence in the park?
3. What is Ganja's attitude toward his father?
4. Why does Hippolite want to kill himself?
5. How does Myshkin contradict what Aglaya has told him about Ganja?
6. What does Aglaya say to Myshkin, after her proposal to him?
7. How does Myshkin answer Nastassya's question to him, and what is Rogozhin's response?
8. What does Ganja report about Burdovsky's relationship with Pavlishtchev?
9. Why hasn't Myshkin visited the Yephanchins?
10. How does Myshkin feel, when he gets to Madam Yephanchin and is sitting at the table with Aglaya and the other guests?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss religion in the novel.
1) What stories do the characters tell about religion and about God? What do these stories mean? Why does the author include them in the novel?
2) What do Myshkin and Rogozhin say about the religious painting in Rogozhin's house? What is the significance of the painting? Does it reveal anything about Rogozhin's relationship to religion? What about the crosses that the two men exchange? What is the religious significance of the crosses?
3) How does Myshkin react when he learns his benefactor turned to Catholicism before his death? What does this say about Myshkin's attitude toward religion? How is Myshkin's attitude toward religion different than the other characters' attitudes?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the role that society's criticism and approval plays in the characters' lives in the novel.
1) What types of actions are criticized and approved of by society in the novel? How does the society as a whole make its criticism or approval felt to the characters?
2) How do characters respond to societal pressure or societal disapproval? How does it influence characters' actions? How do the characters respond to society's expectations and approval? Do characters actively try to gain societal approval?
3) How is Myshkin perceived by society? When and how is he criticized or approved? How does societal criticism or approval affect Myshkin?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss how characters in the novel define themselves, and their relationships to others.
1) How does Rogozhin define himself in the novel? What is his perception of himself? How does his own self-perception lead him to violence against both Myshkin and Nastassya?
2) How does Nastassya define herself in the novel? How does her relationship with Totsky affect her self-perception? How does her view of herself affect her relationships with Rogozhin and with Myshkin?
3) How does Aglyana perceive herself? How do her parents' and sisters' attitudes affect her self-perception? How does her definition of herself affect her relationships with others, including her romantic relationships with Ganja and Myshkin? What leads her to the confrontation with Nastassya after Myshkin's seizure?
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