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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has Golyadkin reserved a carriage for?
(a) All day.
(b) One one-way trip.
(c) All morning.
(d) A weekend.

2. Where does Golyadkin send his carriage away?
(a) At his home.
(b) At Olsufy Ivanovich’s house.
(c) At Nevsky Prospekt.
(d) At a restaurant.

3. What is Golyadkin’s frame of reference for understanding the banquet?
(a) Newspaper accounts.
(b) Hearsay.
(c) Cheap French novels.
(d) Personal experience.

4. How is Golyadkin characterized as he leaves the banquet?
(a) Redeemed.
(b) Crushed.
(c) Murdered.
(d) Delighted.

5. Which of the following types of phrases does Golyadkin use often?
(a) Understatements.
(b) Clichés.
(c) Innuendoes.
(d) Hyperboles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Golyadkin’s reaction the first time he sees Golyadkin Junior?

2. What is making the shrieking Golyadkin hears after he leaves the banquet?

3. How do the clerks characterize Golyadkin’s appearance?

4. How does the narrator characterize his account of this story?

5. What is wrong with Petrushka’s livery?

(see the answer key)

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