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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Whom does Stavrogin defend from Peter?
(a) Captain Leybatkin.
(b) Virginsky.
(c) Shatov.
(d) Fedka.
2. Why is Lisa Tushin killed?
(a) She is killed accidentally when her carriage turns over.
(b) The townspeople blame her for the murder of Captain and Mary Lebyatkin.
(c) The police convict her of the murder of Captain and Mary Lebyatkin and execute her.
(d) She is killed by the radicals, who want to get to Stavrogin.
3. How many people are in Peter Verkhovensky's secret group of radicals?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Five.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Ten.
4. What does Stepan Verkhovensky have to work up his courage to do?
(a) Ask Mrs. Stavrogin to marry him.
(b) Flee to Germany.
(c) Publish his radical tract.
(d) Visit Lembke to find out why he is being searched.
5. Who does Peter allow into the fête?
(a) Radical agitators.
(b) Writers and artists.
(c) Lower-class people.
(d) Criminals and prostitutes.
6. What does Blum say about the search at Peter Verkhovensky's?
(a) The police found what they were looking for.
(b) Shatov had tipped the police off.
(c) It was a mistake.
(d) Virginsky had testified that Peter was the leader of the radical group.
7. What led to the release of the demons in Russia in the nineteenth century?
(a) The invention of the printing press.
(b) Convulsions associated with modernization.
(c) The invention of the railroad.
(d) The publication of Darwin's Origin of Species.
8. What effect does the birth of Shatov's child have on him?
(a) It fills him with dread for the world's sufferings.
(b) It fills him with forgiveness for his wife's infidelity.
(c) It renews his commitment to revolutionary ideals.
(d) It renews his faith in God.
9. What crime is Fedka implicated in?
(a) Theft.
(b) Arson.
(c) Treason.
(d) Murder.
10. What does Stavrogin look for and not find in the final chapters?
(a) A good woman's love.
(b) God.
(c) Just punishment.
(d) His mother's forgiveness.
11. Who alone knows the purpose of the meeting at Virginsky's house?
(a) Liputin.
(b) Mrs. Stavrogin.
(c) Virginsky.
(d) Peter Verkhovensky.
12. What cover do the fifteen people use for gathering at Virginsky's house?
(a) They are there to celerate the birth of his son.
(b) They are there to celebrate his birthday.
(c) They are there to help him through his illness.
(d) They are there to help him move.
13. How long had Shatov's wife been gone before she returns?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Three months.
(c) Three years.
(d) Three days.
14. What kind of poem does Liputin read to the crowd?
(a) A pastoral idyll.
(b) A patriotic ode.
(c) An obscene farce.
(d) A call for revolution.
15. Where does Stepan Verkhovensky wander into in the beginning of Chapter 7 of Part 3?
(a) An anarchists' camp.
(b) A river.
(c) The Winter Palace in Moscow.
(d) The 'real Russia.'
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Peter Verkhovensky concerned about when he rushes out of Virginsky's house?
2. How do the revolutionaries dispose of Shatov's body?
3. Who shows up to talk with Shatov after Shatov's wife returns?
4. Why do the townspeople think the Lebyatkins were killed?
5. What is the overall message of The Possessed?
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