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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dostoevsky say Golyadkin has difficulty with?
(a) His balance.
(b) Choosing his words.
(c) Remembering his thoughts.
(d) His vision.

2. How does Dostoevsky describe Golyadkin’s appearance?
(a) Sunken.
(b) Sallow.
(c) Virile.
(d) Bald.

3. What is making the shrieking Golyadkin hears after he leaves the banquet?
(a) Lamps in the wind.
(b) Chains from the prison.
(c) Ships’ anchor chains.
(d) Wind in the church towers.

4. What is Anton Antonovich Setochkin’s profession?
(a) Department Head.
(b) Clerk.
(c) Titular Counsellor.
(d) Chief Clerk.

5. How does Golyadkin describe himself?
(a) As a peace-loving man.
(b) A miserable wretch.
(c) As a serious thinker.
(d) As a care-free person.

6. How does Dostoevsky describe Krestyan Ivanovich?
(a) Sallow old chap.
(b) Healthy older gentleman.
(c) Brisk young man.
(d) Virile middle-aged father.

7. How does Chapter Five end, after Golyadkin catches his double?
(a) With a quote.
(b) With a metaphor.
(c) With a question mark.
(d) With an ellipsis.

8. What is the literary term for difference between Golyadkin’s description of himself and the narrator’s account of his actions?
(a) Irony.
(b) Personification.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Imagery.

9. What is Golyadkin’s feeling about the money in his wallet?
(a) He despairs that it won’t be enough.
(b) He is sad because it is already spent.
(c) He is apprehensive about what to spend it on.
(d) He is delighted.

10. What reason does the narrator give for his inability to describe the scene at the banquet?
(a) His pen is too feeble.
(b) He was not there.
(c) He is not accustomed to these people’s customs.
(d) He heard contradictory accounts of the banquet.

11. Where does Golyadkin find Petrushka when he looks for him?
(a) In bed.
(b) In the hall.
(c) In the courtyard.
(d) In the street.

12. How does the narrator describe Golyadkin upon leaving the banquet?
(a) A man who had just accomplished his goal.
(b) A man who was being torn apart by conflicting desires.
(c) A man who has just lost everything he hoped for.
(d) A man who wanted to hide from himself.

13. What does Golyadkin will happen in time?
(a) He will find his way home.
(b) He will unveil a damaging secret.
(c) Masks will fall from certain faces.
(d) His value will be revealed.

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

15. What plot does Golyadkin say is afoot?
(a) To murder someone.
(b) To imprison Golyadkin.
(c) To catch a murderer.
(d) To murder someone’s reputation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Golyadkin have in his wallet, which he counts over and over again?

2. How much does Golyadkin spend during his shopping trip?

3. Which of the following best characterizes the narrator’s technique of describing the banquet by accounting for his inability to describe the event sufficiently?

4. What is Golyadkin’s frame of reference for understanding the banquet?

5. What power does Golyadkin say he has?

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