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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 5, The Wise Serpent.

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 tried to arrange for Nicholas to marry Dasha.
(c) He tells Verkhovensky that Mrs. Stavrogin had just been diagnosed with a fatal illness.
(d) He tells Verkhovensky that Mrs. Stavrogin asked him if he thought Nicholas was mad.

2. What imputation does Liputin make about Nicholas Stavrogin in his conversation with Kerkhovensky?
(a) That Nicholas is dying.
(b) That Nicholas is a radical agitator.
(c) That Nicholas is disreputable.
(d) That Nicholas is mad.

3. Who does Lebyatkin live with?
(a) His sister, Shatov and Kirlov.
(b) Peter Verkhovensky.
(c) Virginsky.
(d) Mrs. Stavrogin.

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

5. What is Stepan Verkhovensky agitated about at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) His son's debts.
(b) Marriage to Dasha.
(c) His wife's pregnancy.
(d) His father's return.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nicholas Stavrogin kill a man?

2. What venture does Lisa approach Shatov for help with?

3. How many previous marriages has Stepan Verkhovensky had?

4. What does Mrs. Stavrogin ask her son when he arrives?

5. Who arrives when Peter has just finished relating the story of Nicholas' devotion to Miss Lebyatkin?

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