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Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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1. From whom does Raskolnikov get the ax that he uses to kill Alyona Ivanovna and Lizaveta?

(A) A stranger

(B) The caretaker

(D) Razumikhin

2. Why is Raskolnikov immediately opposed to the marriage of his sister to Luzhin?

(A) He doesn't believe that Luzhin earns enough to support a family

(B) He wants her to marry Razumikhin instead

(D) He is against marriage in general

3. When Raskolnikov first meets him, why is Marmeladov afraid to return to his home?

(A) He has been on a five-day drinking binge and cannot face his family

(B) He is afraid of contracting tuberculosis from his wife, Katerina Ivanovna

(D) None of the above

4. Why does Raskolnikov kill Lizaveta?

(A) He dislikes her

(B) She is trying to prevent him from stealing the pawnbroker's money

(D) She is a witness to the murder of her sister

5. What does Sonya do to support her family?

(A) Sews

(B) Steals

(D) Prostitutes herself

6. What is Porfiry Petrovich's first clue that Raskolnikov might be the killer?

(A) Raskolnikov faints at the police station during a conversation about the murder

(B) Raskolnikov returns to the pawnbroker's apartment and asks about blood

(D) Raskolnikov teases Zamyotov about the possibility that he is the murderer

7. Crime and Punishment was initially published in

(A) 1862

(B) 1864

(D) 1868

8. Where does Raskolnikov meet the drunk civil official Marmeladov?

(A) In Raskolnikov's apartment

(B) In Marmeladov's apartment

(D) In a tavern

9. What event tarnished Dunya's reputation in her hometown?

(A) Rumors that she had become a prostitute to support herself and her mother

(B) Rumors that she made improper advances toward Svidrigailov

(D) Rumors that her brother had committed a murder

10. What does Raskolnikov overhear in the Haymarket that clinches his resolve to kill Alyona?

(A) A conversation about how the death of the pawnbroker would be a boon to society

(B) A conversation indicating that Alyona will be alone in her apartment the next evening

(D) That Alyona is one of the wealthiest women in Russia

11. Where does Raskolnikov ultimately hide the goods that he steals from Alyona?

(A) Under the couch in his apartment

(B) In Sonya's apartment

(D) At the bottom of the Neva River

12. Which nightmare does Raskolnikov mistake for reality, even after waking up?

(A) The dream in which he tries to murder Alyona

(B) The dream in which Ilya Petrovich is beating Raskolnikov's landlady

(D) The dream in which a plague of selfishness and pride spreads across Europe

13. Who takes care of Raskolnikov during his sickness after the murder?

(A) Razumikhin and Nastasya

(B) Dunya and Nastasya

(D) Pulcheria Alexandrovna, Dunya, and Razumikhin

14. What is the name of the café in which Raskolnikov jokes with Zamyotov about having murdered Alyona and Lizaveta?

(A) The Boar's Head

(B) Bakaleev's

(D) The Crystal Palace

15. How does Marmeladov die?

(A) He shoots himself

(B) He is trampled under a horse-drawn carriage

(D) He dies of alcohol poisoning

16. What is the main reason that Sonya first visits Raskolnikov in his apartment?

(A) She is attracted to him

(B) She wants to thank him for the money that he gave to Katerina Ivanovna

(D) Raskolnikov wants to talk to her about the murders

17. During their first conversation, what question does Porfiry Petrovich ask Raskolnikov that he thinks is a trap?

(A) Whether he had ever been to Alyona's apartment

(B) Whether he knew the pawnbroker's sister Lizaveta

(D) Whether he thought that extraordinary people had the right to transgress accepted standards of morality

18. What event at the end of Part III makes Raskolnikov think that someone has evidence that he is the murderer?

(A) A stranger comes up to him outside of his apartment and calls him a murderer

(B) Porfiry Petrovich asks him a series of leading questions

(D) Raskolnikov discovers that the police had searched his apartment while he was talking to Porfiry Petrovich

19. What does Svidrigailov say during their first conversation that convinces Raskolnikov that Svidrigailov is losing his mind?

(A) He tells Raskolnikov that he is in love with Dunya

(B) He tells Raskolnikov of his dream about a depraved five-year-old girl

(D) He tells Raskolnikov that he knows he is the murderer

20. Why does Dunya break her engagement with Luzhin?

(A) Because he insults Razumikhin

(B) Because he implies that Dunya is having a relationship with Svidrigailov

(D) Because he is stingy, overbearing, and dislikes Raskolnikov

21. What business does Razumikhin propose that he, Dunya, and Raskolnikov go into?

(A) Law

(B) Running an orphanage

(D) Running a restaurant

22. What biblical story does Raskolnikov order Sonya to read to him?

(A) The story of Genesis

(B) The story of the Sermon on the Mount

(D) The story of Lazarus

23. What is the name of the painter who confesses to the murders just as Raskolnikov is about to break under Porfiry Petrovich's pressure?

(A) Nikolai

(B) Misha

(D) Ivan

24. How does Luzhin try to discredit Sonya and, by association, Raskolnikov?

(A) By accusing her of being a prostitute

(B) By framing her for the theft of a one-hundred-ruble bill

(D) By accusing her of abandoning her family

25. Why does Svidrigailov allow Dunya to escape from his apartment after attempting to rape her?

(A) Because she wounds him with a revolver

(B) Because he decides to kill himself

(D) Because he realizes that she will never love him

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