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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of speech does Stepan Verkhovensky give?
(a) A defense of high culture.
(b) A jeremiad against the people themselves.
(c) An attack on materialism.
(d) A justification of revolutionary acts.

2. Why are workers from the Spigulin factory massing in the street?
(a) They are enjoying their day off.
(b) They are petitioning for the governor to intervene in a payment dispute.
(c) They are demanding the release of political prisoners.
(d) They are organizing themselves for the new, post-revolutionary society.

3. Who carries out the raid on Peter's house?
(a) Stavrogin.
(b) Fedka.
(c) Captain Lebyatkin.
(d) Mr. Blum.

4. Whom does Stavrogin defend from Peter?
(a) Fedka.
(b) Captain Leybatkin.
(c) Shatov.
(d) Virginsky.

5. Whom does Lisa find after she leaves Stavrogin's?
(a) Liputin.
(b) Drozdov.
(c) Shatov.
(d) Peter.

6. What is Peter Verkhovensky concerned about when he rushes out of Virginsky's house?
(a) An arrest warrant that has been issued for him.
(b) Getting his manuscript to the press in time for printing.
(c) A raid that is planned for his house.
(d) A letter that might expose the group.

7. What does Stepan Verkhovensky find in his wanderings?
(a) Honest peasants.
(b) A good woman's love.
(c) Alcoholism and despair.
(d) God.

8. What is the overall message of The Possessed?
(a) Russia is possessed with demons.
(b) Conspiracy against the government is always fruitless.
(c) Russia is in the hands of loving protectors like Stepan Verkhovensky.
(d) Tyrannical monarchy will bring about its own downfall.

9. What happens to the swine in the story from Luke?
(a) They are killed and eaten after Jesus fills them with devils.
(b) They drown after Jesus fills them with devils.
(c) They run wild and ruin the town after Jesus fills them with devils.
(d) They are disemboweled and scattered around the town after Jesus fills them with devils.

10. Shatov is happy to see his wife in spite of what?
(a) Her poverty.
(b) Her illness.
(c) Her infidelity.
(d) Her disdain for him.

11. Who alone knows the purpose of the meeting at Virginsky's house?
(a) Mrs. Stavrogin.
(b) Peter Verkhovensky.
(c) Liputin.
(d) Virginsky.

12. What is Shigalyov's plan for the new social organization?
(a) Enslave 90% of humanity.
(b) Liberate the peasants.
(c) Abolish industrialism and return to farming.
(d) Eliminate the aristocracy.

13. Who kills Kirilov?
(a) Shatov.
(b) Liputin.
(c) He kills himself.
(d) Peter.

14. Why is Lisa Tushin killed?
(a) The police convict her of the murder of Captain and Mary Lebyatkin and execute her.
(b) She is killed by the radicals, who want to get to Stavrogin.
(c) She is killed accidentally when her carriage turns over.
(d) The townspeople blame her for the murder of Captain and Mary Lebyatkin.

15. Who is on the stage when Karminazov goes to speak?
(a) Captain Lebyatkin.
(b) Shatov.
(c) Stepan Verkhovensky.
(d) Liputin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stepan Verkhovensky have to work up his courage to do?

2. What reason does the narrator have for visiting Lembke?

3. Why was it a mistake to charge a high price for the fête?

4. Which revolutionary dissociates himself from murder as a strategy?

5. What does Virginsky say to the radicals after Shatov's wife gives birth?

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