Assess students' ability to apply Bakhtin's concepts of dialogism, polyphony, heteroglossia, and authorial unfinalizability to analyze narrative strategies in Dostoevsky's novels (e.g., Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot). Tasks include close reading of passages to identify multiple, interacting voices; distinguishing authorial versus character discourse; evaluating how polyphony shapes moral and epistemic perspectives; and constructing a comparative argument that synthesizes textual evidence with Bakhtinian theory.