Crime and Punishment Quiz 2

What is Porfiry Petrovich’s first clue that Raskolnikov might be the killer?

• Raskolnikov faints at the police station during a conversation about the murder

• Raskolnikov returns to the pawnbroker’s apartment and asks about blood

• Raskolnikov becomes delirious the day after the murder

• Raskolnikov teases Zamyotov about the possibility that he is the murderer

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

• She is attracted to him

• She wants to thank him for the money that he gave to Katerina Ivanovna

• She wants to invite him to the memorial dinner for her father

• Raskolnikov wants to talk to her about the murders

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

• Whether he had ever been to Alyona’s apartment

• Whether he knew the pawnbroker’s sister Lizaveta

• Whether there were painters in the apartment building when he pawned his watch

• Whether he thought that extraordinary people had the right to transgress accepted standards of morality

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

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

• Porfiry Petrovich asks him a series of leading questions

• Razumikhin tells him that the police suspect him

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

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

• He tells Raskolnikov that he is in love with Dunya

• He tells Raskolnikov of his dream about a depraved five-year-old girl

• He tells Raskolnikov that the ghost of his dead wife, Marfa, appears to him

• He tells Raskolnikov that he knows he is the murderer

Why does Dunya break her engagement with Luzhin?

• Because he insults Raskolnikov

• Because he implies that Dunya is having a relationship with Svidrigailov

• Because he insults Pulcheria Alexandrovna

• Because he is stingy, overbearing, and dislikes Raskolnikov

What is the purpose of Dunya's plan regarding Luzhin?

• To gauge his true feelings for her

• To challenge his pride

• To compel him to marry her quickly

• To force him to leave her alone

In Part 3, what reason does Raskolnikov give for wanting to speak to the police?

• He thinks that the time has come for him to confess.

• To test whether the police knows the real murderer is

• He hopes to put them on a false lead about the murder.

• He wants a watch back that he pawned to Alyona.

What did Raskolnikov claim in the article "On Crime"?

• To really understand the psychology of a criminal you must commit a crime.

• Some men are better than others and have a right to commit murder.

• Murder can be justifiable if done in the name of people's benefits.

• The environment is the cause of crimes.

What is the main reason why Nicolai confesses to the murders?

• Because he wants to help Raskolnikov

• Because he is guilty of his previous lie about the jewelries.

• Because he is secretly involved in the murder.

• Because he wants to have more suffering