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Crime and Punishment

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Biography

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Part 1: Chapter 1
Part 1: Chapter 2
Part 1: Chapter 3
Part 1: Chapter 4
Part 1: Chapter 5
Part 1: Chapter 6
Part 1: Chapter 7
Part 2: Chapter 1
Part 2: Chapter 2
Part 2: Chapter 3
Part 2: Chapter 4
Part 2: Chapter 5
Part 2: Chapter 6
Part 2: Chapter 7
Part 3: Chapter 1
Part 3: Chapter 2
Part 3: Chapter 3
Part 3: Chapter 4
Part 3: Chapter 5
Part 3: Chapter 6
Part 4: Chapter 1
Part 4: Chapter 2
Part 4: Chapter 3
Part 4: Chapter 4
Part 4: Chapter 5
Part 4: Chapter 6
Part 5: Chapter 1
Part 5: Chapter 2
Part 5: Chapter 3
Part 5: Chapter 4
Part 5: Chapter 5
Part 6: Chapter 1
Part 6: Chapter 2
Part 6: Chapter 3
Part 6: Chapter 4
Part 6: Chapter 5
Part 6: Chapter 6
Part 6: Chapter 7
Part 6: Chapter 8

Character List

Character Map

Character Analysis

Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov
Sonya Semyonova Marmeladov
Arkady Svidrigailov
Porfiry Petrovitch

Critical Essays

Raskolnikov: A Dual or Split Personality
The Redemptive Characters: Sonya and Porfiry
The Ubermensch or Extraordinary Man Theories

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1:  What game does Roskolnikov believe that Porfiry is playing?

a. Cat and mouse

b. Chicken

c. Russian roulette

d. Odd man out
2:  The Yellow Card that Sonya carries indicates that she is a licensed

a. dressmaker

b. apothecary

c. governess

d. prostitute
3:  Who does Raskolnikov believe is the perfect example of the Ubermensch or superman?

a. Machiavelli

b. Alexander the Great

c. Napoleon

d. Otto Von Bismarck
4:  Raskolnikov believes that Sonya is the perfect example of

a. intellect and wit

b. logic and romanticism

c. the suffering of all humanity

d. beauty and truth
5:  Who is Dunya’s former employer who is constantly trying to seduce her?

a. Svidrigailov

b. Porfiry

c. Razumihkin

d. Marmeladov
6:  Which character best represents Raskolnikov’s alter ego?

a. Razumihkin

b. Porfiry

c. Svidrigailov

d. Marmeladov
7:  In addition to Alyona, whom does Raskolnikov murder?

a. Svidrigailov

b. Porfiry

c. Dunya

d. Lizaveta
8:  At his confession, what does Raskolnikov ask Sonya to read from the Bible?

a. Daniel and the lion’s den

b. The raising of Lazarus

c. Cain’s murder of Abel

d. Moses and the burning bush
9:  After his trial, where is Raskolnikov sent?

a. Elba

b. Budapest

c. Moscow

d. Siberia
10:  Who says the following: “Whatever happens to me, wherever I go, you will stay and look after them. I entrust them to you."

a. Dunya

b. Rodya

c. Katerina

d. Nastasya
11:  Who says the following: “Any man who has any [conscience] must suffer if he is conscious of error. . . . Suffering and pain are always obligatory on those of wide intellect and profound feeling. Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on earth.”

a. Raskolnikov

b. Porfiry

c. Svidrigailov

d. Marmeladov
12:  Who says the following: “Go at once, this instant, stand at the cross-roads, first bow down and kiss the earth you have desecrated, then bow to the whole world . . . and say aloud to all the . . . four corners of the earth and say to all the world ‘I have done murder.’ ”

a. Pulcheria Raskolnikov

b. Dunya

c. Lizaveta

d. Sonya



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