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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What power does Golyadkin say he has?
(a) The power to ruin people with their secrets.
(b) He says that he is powerless.
(c) The power to ruin a certain woman’s reputation.
(d) The power to harm people with what he knows.

2. What spurs Golyadkin to turn and leave after his conversation with Andrey Filippovich?
(a) Footsteps on the stairs.
(b) The arrival of guards.
(c) The cold.
(d) Voices from within.

3. Who is Andrey Filippovich?
(a) Golyadkin’s boss.
(b) Golyadkin’s cousin.
(c) Golyadkin’s rival for a woman’ hand.
(d) Golyadkin’s friend.

4. What does Krestyan Ivanovich tell Golyadkin he has to do?
(a) Stay at home and rest.
(b) Follow his prescription.
(c) Travel.
(d) Lead a thoughtful introspective life.

5. What disconcerts Golyadkin when he is in the carriage?
(a) He encounters the woman he hoped to see.
(b) He is self-conscious about his clothing.
(c) He remembers an important errand he needed to run.
(d) He meets two younger clerks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dostoevsky describe Golyadkin’s appearance?

2. How is Petrushka’s livery described?

3. What is the narrator’s as he describes Golyadkin’s shopping trip?

4. What is wrong with Petrushka’s livery?

5. What is the literary term for difference between Golyadkin’s description of himself and the narrator’s account of his actions?

(see the answer key)

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