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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dostoevsky seem to believe is the problem with Russia?
(a) It is poisoned by its peasant spirituality.
(b) It is both attracted to and repulsed by industrial modernism.
(c) It is ripe for a revolution but incapable of emerging from one.
(d) It is held back by its feudal past.

2. Where do Lisa and the man she meets rush off to after they meet?
(a) They go to see the people who were murdered.
(b) They go to Shatov's.
(c) They go to Mrs. Stavrogin's.
(d) They go to Lembke's.

3. For whom are the swine a metaphor in the story of Luke?
(a) Mrs. Lembke and her young radicals.
(b) Stavrogin and voluptuaries like him.
(c) Captain and Mary Lebyatkin.
(d) Peter and his revolutionaries.

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

5. Who does Peter leave Virginsky's house to meet?
(a) His father.
(b) Lisa Tushin.
(c) Captain Lebyatkin.
(d) Kirilov and Stavrogin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Peter intent on killing Shatov?

2. What cover do the fifteen people use for gathering at Virginsky's house?

3. What kind of poem does Liputin read to the crowd?

4. Why does Lisa want to leave Stavrogin at the beginning of the Part 3, Chapter 3?

5. Who do the townspeople believe killed Mary and Captain Lebyatkin?

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