What is the young man thinking of doing at the end of the passage?
The answer is: C) committing murder
Raskolnikov, the main character in "Crime and Punishment", by Fiodor Dostoievski, is planning to murder his landlady, whom he considers to be abject. His hesitation shows how serious the nature of his plan is. Furthermore, he mentions the English fairy tale "Jack the Giant Killer" in paragraph 5.
How does the young man feel about his financial state now?
The answer is: B) He is indifferent to it.
Although the young man was very poor, it no longer bothered him, as we can see in the following passage: "He was crushed by poverty, but the anxieties of his position had of late ceased to weigh upon him." In fact, he was quite absorbed in himself, and no practical matters could affect him.
Why does the young man frequently see his landlady?
The answer is: D) He passes her kitchen whenever he leaves.
He lived in the garret, so they didn't live on the same floor. Besides, we learn where exactly the landlady lived and why letter D is correct in the following passage: "The landlady who provided him with garret, dinners, and attendance, lived on the floor below, and every time he went out he was obliged to pass her kitchen, the door of which invariably stood open."
What is paragraph 3 MOSTLY about?
The answer is: C) the young man's relationship with his landlady
There is a bit of all that is mentioned in the other alternatives, but what paragraph 3 is MOSTLY about is the young man's relationship with his landlady, since all we learn about the character has to do with how and why he fiercely avoids her. Paragraph 3 is linked to paragraph 2, and it starts by outlining the reasons for Raskolnikov's being afraid of meeting his landlady, a fact we learn in paragraph 2. Therefore, the whole paragraph 3 is a succesful attempt at explaining the whys and hows of the main character's behavior towards the nasty woman.
