Test Questions

1. What was scandalous about the death of Father Zossima? The odor of corruption

2. Who is Smerdyakov's mother? Stinking Lizaveta

3. What are two of the great lessons of Father Zossima? Everyone is responsible for everyone else. Paradise is everywhere (not geography, but mental)

4. Who actually murdered Old Man Karamazov? Smerdyakov

5. How did Smerdyakov die? He hanged himself

6. What are the court scenes depicting? The corrupt questioning of the western legal system

7. Grand Inquisitor - parable about Christ returning to earth again to give human kind free will. He is arrested again and is executed again because people want to be told what to do by the church through miracles

8. How does each brother contribute to the death of Old Man Karamazov?
Smerdyakov - killed him
Dmitri - wanted to kill Fydor
Ivan - gave ideas that he approved of it
Alyosha - did nothing to prevent it

9. What was the evidence that convicted Dmitri? Katerina's letter

10. Which character in the novel is critical of Alyosha but later becomes his disicple? Koyla

11. Who did Anne see as the tragic hero of the novel? Ilyusha

12. Who did Hamlet accidentally kill behind the curtain? Polonius Who did he think was behind the curtain? Claudius

13. Who is the only other character that can compare to the wit of Hamlet? The grave digger