Flashcards for English - Crime and Punishment
“the old woman was a mistake perhaps, but… it wasn’t a human being I killed, it was a…” What?
Principle
After he recovers from his fever, R sees who at the gate?
Sonia
After meeting with Sonia, Sonia gives R specific instructions to show remorse. What does she tell him to do?
Go to the crossroads, kiss the ground and pray/ask for forgiveness of the four cardinal directions.
After returning to his apartment, he received a distressing message. Who sent it, and what does the message say?
Letter from his mother detailing his sister Dunia’s humiliation and engagement: his mother advises him to meet with dunia’s fiance, because R could potentially get a job from him and help their family get out of poverty
After she leaves R’s room, Sonia is followed by someone. Who?
Svidrigailov
Book Three ends with a main waiting for R to wake up. Who?
Svidrigailov
Briefly, what is Dunia’s plan to test Luzhin’s feelings for her?
Dunia allows R to come to their meeting with Luzhin, which he has expressly demanded she not do.
Describe R’s nightmare at the end of Book Three.
R dreams that the strange artisan beckons to him and leads him to Alyona’s building, where Alyona is sitting behind a coat, alive. She tries to kill her and cannot.
During his fever, what does R dream of?
He dreams that a plague comes over everyone and makes them believe that they’re right and everyone else is wrong, so everyoen goes around killing and persecuting each other.
Examples of R’s kindness?
gives rest of his money to Marmeladovs when he brings M home; stays with the drunk girl on the street to protect her from the lurking creep and gives money to the policeman to help her get home; gives even more money to the Marmeladov’s for M’s funeral
How do the other prisoners feel about R? What do they call him?
They hate him because he’s isolated and not religious; Atheist
How does R respond to Porfiry’s trick question about the painters at Alyona’s?
He remembers that there were no painters when he went two days before, and denies that he saw any painters there.
How many years was R sentenced to in Sibera?
eight
In book Three, do Dunia and Pulcheria ever go to R’s room?
Yes: and they meet Sonia there too
In his letter to Pulcheria and Dunia, Luzhin says he saw something R did. What?
gave money to Sonia
In his letter to Pulcheria and Dunia, what does Luzhin order them not to do?
to not allow R to be there when they meet
In Part 3, Chapter 1, what does Raskolnikov demand Dunia to do?
not to marry Luzhin, because he realizes that she’s only doing it to help their family financially, and he doesn’t want her to sacrifice herself
in R’s feverish dream, who are saved?
Only the select chosen few, to start a new race
In the first part of book 5, the reader listens to a lengthy philosophical discussion between what two characters?
Luzhin and Lebeziatnikov
One character surprisingly offers to help Sonia and her family financially. Who?
Svidrigailov
One day, while he is looking across the river at people living in freedom, Sonia appears beside R. What does he do?
Holds her hand and kisses her feet and cries.
Part V includes which of the following? A murder, B distressing call for help, C funeral party, D marriage, E, murder and distressing call
C: funeral party
Porfiry tries to trap R into confessing by asking a trick question. What is the question?
Porfiry asks if R saw any painters when he went to Alyona’s to pawn his things.
R has been in prison for how many years before he realizes his love for Sonia?
one
R is sentenced to hard labor of what degree?
the second degree
R is sick with fever during Lent and what other holiday?
Easter
Sonia follows R to Siberia and gives him money to buy what?
tea
T/F: Raz. Finds Dunia attractive but annoying.
FALSE
