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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What led to the release of the demons in Russia in the nineteenth century?
(a) The publication of Darwin's Origin of Species.
(b) The invention of the printing press.
(c) The invention of the railroad.
(d) Convulsions associated with modernization.

3. Why was it a mistake to charge a high price for the fête?
(a) No one could afford to come.
(b) The people expected to be entertained.
(c) Expensive tickets excluded the writers.
(d) The people who came wanted food.

4. What effect does the birth of Shatov's child have on him?
(a) It renews his faith in God.
(b) It fills him with dread for the world's sufferings.
(c) It fills him with forgiveness for his wife's infidelity.
(d) It renews his commitment to revolutionary ideals.

5. The first chapter of Part 3 is set the day after what?
(a) The meeting at Virginsky's.
(b) Peter Verkhvensky's house being searched.
(c) Shatov's wife returns.
(d) The factory riot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Shatov have to do in order to leave the group of radicals peacefully?

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

3. What is the overall message of The Possessed?

4. Which one of these characters is NOT in Peter's secret group?

5. Whom does Lisa find after she leaves Stavrogin's?

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