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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Stepan and Peter Verkhovensky's relationship like?
(a) They have become mortal enemies.
(b) They have been closer ever since Stepah fled to the provinces.
(c) They have been in touch as Peter traveled.
(d) They have been estranged.

2. What consequence does Stavrogin suffer after he is punched in the face?
(a) He comes down with an illness.
(b) He needs surgery.
(c) He is unconscious for a week.
(d) He has to stay home while the bone sets.

3. Where is The Possessed set?
(a) In Novgorod.
(b) In Moscow.
(c) In the Russian provinces.
(d) In St. Petersburg.

4. Who is Liputin?
(a) A student of Verkhovensky's.
(b) A liberal official.
(c) Mrs. Stavrogin's son's friend.
(d) A local banker.

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

6. What are Mrs. Lembke's social aspirations?
(a) She wants to be accepted in the highest rank of society.
(b) She wants to be accepted into Mrs. Stavrogin's society.
(c) She wants to pass for an ordinary Russian.
(d) She wants to know Captain and Mary Lebyatkin.

7. What warning does Stavrogin give to Shatov at the end of their conversation?
(a) He warns him that members of the society might try to kill him.
(b) He warns him that his wife might not come home now.
(c) He warns him that his mother will want him to leave town.
(d) He warns him that he will be implicated in Peter's conspiracy.

8. What was Nicholas' first impression of Mary Lebyatkin?
(a) He thought she was an angel.
(b) He fell in love with her.
(c) He thought she was corrupt but beautiful.
(d) He took no notice of her.

9. 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.

10. Whom does Mrs. Lembke befriend?
(a) Shatov.
(b) Liputin.
(c) Peter Verkhovensky.
(d) Stepan Verkhovensky.

11. Who is Mr. Lembke?
(a) Captain Lebyatkin's brother-in-law.
(b) A judge in the district where Stavrogin dueled.
(c) Mrs. Stavrogin's lawyer.
(d) A German member of the elite.

12. Where does Verkhovensky hear that the rumor he heard about Dasha is true?
(a) From Liputin and a friend of Peter's.
(b) From Lebyatkin.
(c) From Shatov.
(d) From Dasha and Mrs. Stavrogin.

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

14. Why does Nicholas treat Miss Lebyatkin so well?
(a) Captain Lebyatkin says it was because Nicholas is sentimental and stupid.
(b) Mrs. Stavrogin says it was because her son was rebellious.
(c) Nicholas says it was because he was in love.
(d) Peter says it was because of the 'demon of irony' in him.

15. How many paces separate the two duelists?
(a) 20
(b) 30.
(c) 12.
(d) 24.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who will be speaking at Mrs. Lembke's fête?

2. How does Peter plan to instigate his father?

3. What do we find out about Dasha after the duel?

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

5. In whose house is Peter spreading rumors in the days before the fête?

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