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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 3, Another Man's Sins and Chapter 4, The Cripple.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Liputin answer Stepan when Stepan asks him questions at their meeting?
(a) He tells Verkhovensky that Mrs. Stavrogin had just paid all her son's gambling debts.
(b) He tells Verkhovensky that Mrs. Stavrogin had just been diagnosed with a fatal illness.
(c) He tells Verkhovensky that Mrs. Stavrogin had tried to arrange for Nicholas to marry Dasha.
(d) He tells Verkhovensky that Mrs. Stavrogin asked him if he thought Nicholas was mad.

2. What are Verkhovensky's political views?
(a) He does not let politics interfere with his art.
(b) He is an informant working with the government to clamp down on dissenters.
(c) He is afraid of the government, but likes to be seen as liberal.
(d) He is rebellious and frequently in trouble with the law.

3. What is Stepan Verkhovensky's employment?
(a) He is an elected official.
(b) He is a social researcher.
(c) He is a local bureaucrat.
(d) He tutors Mrs. Stavrogin's son.

4. Who is Kirilov?
(a) A local official and former political prisoner.
(b) A friend of Peter Verkhovensky and Nicholas Stavrogin's.
(c) A political agitator from Moscow.
(d) A friend of Shatov's and Mrs. Stavrogin's neighbor.

5. Who is Shatov?
(a) A local official.
(b) A former student of Verkhovensky's.
(c) A local doctor.
(d) A banker from Moscow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Stepan Verkhovensky's relationship with Mrs. Stavrogin?

2. What does Stepan ask Liputin about at their meeting?

3. In what way do Virginsky and Shatov resemble one another?

4. What does Lebyatkin ask Lisa in a letter?

5. What is Verkhovensky's status in Moscow and St. Petersburg society?

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