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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Chapter 1, The Fête, Part One and Chapter 2, The End of The Fête.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What condition does Mrs. Lembke impose on people who want to come to her party?
(a) Guests must pledge loyalty to the Czar.
(b) Guests must volunteer to subvert the rich.
(c) Guests must purchase a subscription to her new literary magazine.
(d) Guests must read a radical essay by Peter Verkhovensky.

2. Who is on the stage when Karminazov goes to speak?
(a) Shatov.
(b) Liputin.
(c) Stepan Verkhovensky.
(d) Captain Lebyatkin.

3. What event results in an investigation that discovers radical literature?
(a) The publication of a radical poem.
(b) An attack on a general's wife.
(c) A flood in a mine.
(d) A cholera outbreak at a factory.

4. Whose influence has Mr. Lembke come under?
(a) His wife's.
(b) His son's.
(c) Mrs. Stavrogin's.
(d) Peter Verkhovensky's.

5. What did Nicholas think of Mary Lebyatkin after he got to know her?
(a) He thought she was secretly malicious.
(b) He thought she was unredeemably lost.
(c) He thought she was a tease.
(d) He thought she was better than anyone he knew.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes the stage after Stepan Verkhovensky?

2. Why was it a mistake to charge a high price for the fête?

3. What would normally happen to youth who behave as these youth are behaving?

4. Whom does Mrs. Stavrogin invite into the conversation that starts Chapter 5?

5. What kind of speech does Stepan Verkhovensky give?

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