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This Russian author penned Crime and Punishment in 1866.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Leo Tolstoy
- Anton Chekhov
- Ivan Turgenev
This impoverished former student is the protagonist who commits murder in Crime and Punishment.
- Dmitri Razumikhin
- Rodion Raskolnikov
- Porfiry Petrovich
- Arkady Svidrigailov
This Russian city serves as the setting for Crime and Punishment.
- Moscow
- Kazan
- St. Petersburg
- Novgorod
Raskolnikov murders this elderly woman who runs a pawnbroker business.
- Katerina Ivanovna
- Pulcheria Alexandrovna
- Marfa Petrovna
- Alyona Ivanovna
This young woman, forced into prostitution to support her family, becomes Raskolnikov's moral guide and love interest.
- Sonya Marmeladova
- Dunya Raskolnikova
- Lizaveta Ivanovna
- Nastasya
This weapon is used by Raskolnikov to commit the murders in the novel.
- A knife
- An axe
- A pistol
- A rope
This is the number of people Raskolnikov actually kills during his crime.
- One
- Three
- Two
- Four
This detective investigates the murders and engages in psychological cat-and-mouse games with Raskolnikov.
- Zamyotov
- Nikodim Fomich
- Ilya Petrovich
- Porfiry Petrovich
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