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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why is Peter intent on killing Shatov?
(a) Because Shatov knows too much about his plans.
(b) From an insult years ago.
(c) Out of envy for Stepan's regard for Shatov.
(d) Out of love for Shatov's wife.
2. What effect does the birth of Shatov's child have on him?
(a) It fills him with forgiveness for his wife's infidelity.
(b) It renews his commitment to revolutionary ideals.
(c) It fills him with dread for the world's sufferings.
(d) It renews his faith in God.
3. Where does Stepan Verkhovensky set off for after the fête?
(a) He is walking across Russia.
(b) He is taking the train to Moscow.
(c) He is taking a coach back to Mrs. Stavrogin's.
(d) He is taking the train to St. Petersburg.
4. How does the audience respond to Karminazov's reading?
(a) They begin to riot.
(b) They weep at the beauty of it.
(c) They sing Karminazov's praises.
(d) They are bored.
5. Who shows up to talk with Shatov after Shatov's wife returns?
(a) Fedka.
(b) Peter.
(c) Erkel.
(d) Virginsky.
6. Who chases after Lisa when she leaves Stavrogin's house?
(a) Stavrogin.
(b) Peter.
(c) Liputin.
(d) Shatov.
7. 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) She is killed by the radicals, who want to get to Stavrogin.
(d) The police convict her of the murder of Captain and Mary Lebyatkin and execute her.
8. What had some poor people done to prepare for the fête?
(a) Broken into the banquet hall.
(b) Stolen money from Lembke.
(c) Moved away to make room for Lembke's guests.
(d) Pawned their belongings to buy gowns.
9. What does Shatov have to do in order to leave the group of radicals peacefully?
(a) Renounce his association with them publicly.
(b) Reveal the hiding place of the printing press.
(c) Swear loyalty to the radicals' ideals.
(d) Leave town and leave his property to the radicals.
10. Who does Peter leave Virginsky's house to meet?
(a) His father.
(b) Lisa Tushin.
(c) Kirilov and Stavrogin.
(d) Captain Lebyatkin.
11. Where do Lisa and the man she meets rush off to after they meet?
(a) They go to Shatov's.
(b) They go to see the people who were murdered.
(c) They go to Lembke's.
(d) They go to Mrs. Stavrogin's.
12. Why was it a mistake to charge a high price for the fête?
(a) Expensive tickets excluded the writers.
(b) The people expected to be entertained.
(c) No one could afford to come.
(d) The people who came wanted food.
13. Why are workers from the Spigulin factory massing in the street?
(a) They are petitioning for the governor to intervene in a payment dispute.
(b) They are demanding the release of political prisoners.
(c) They are organizing themselves for the new, post-revolutionary society.
(d) They are enjoying their day off.
14. Who had a hand in manipulating Lisa to be with Stavrogin?
(a) Virginsky.
(b) Liputin.
(c) Shatov.
(d) Peter.
15. When Stavrogin catches up with Peter, what does Peter suggest to him?
(a) That the police have been watching him.
(b) That Lebyatkin plans to blackmail Stavrogin.
(c) That the flood in the mine was planned.
(d) That Shatov is plotting against him.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does the chief of police begin to arrest?
2. How long had Shatov's wife been gone before she returns?
3. Who alone knows the purpose of the meeting at Virginsky's house?
4. What does Stavrogin want Fedka to do?
5. What resonance does the story of the swine from Luke have with the novel?
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