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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lisa Tushin challenge Stavrogin to do?
(a) Murder Mary and Captain Lebyatkin.
(b) Divorce Mary Lebyatkin.
(c) Get Lebyatkin to stop writing her letters.
(d) Murder his mother.

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

3. Why is Peter intent on killing Shatov?
(a) Out of love for Shatov's wife.
(b) From an insult years ago.
(c) Out of envy for Stepan's regard for Shatov.
(d) Because Shatov knows too much about his plans.

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

5. Which one of these characters is NOT in Peter's secret group?
(a) Lyamshin.
(b) Liputin.
(c) Shatov.
(d) Virginsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have Liputin and Fedka been doing at the Spigulin factory?

2. What does Dostoevsky seem to believe is the problem with Russia?

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

4. What does Shatov ask Kirilov for after he discovers that his wife is pregnant?

5. For whom are the swine a metaphor in the story of Luke?

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