Crime and Punishment Quizzes

Crime and Punishment Quiz 2

1. During his first encounter with the investigator, Raskolnikov is genuinely surprised when Porfiry tells him that

• Zamyotov is suspicious of the painter Mikolka
• he knows Raskolnikov committed the murders
• his article "On Crime" had been published in Periodical Discourse
• Ilya Petrovich suspects him of the murders

2. Raskolnikov's theory suggests that:

• crime exists only in the eye of the beholder
• "ordinary" people will eventually rule the world because "extraordinary" people will destroy themselves through their excesses
• "extraordinary" people have the right within themselves to transgress the law in pursuit of their ideas
• "extraordinary" people can run around committing whatever excesses they like

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