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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Golyadkin say it is sinful to do?
(a) Abuse someone’s charity.
(b) Mock your host.
(c) Send a guest away.
(d) Complain.

2. What do the cabbies tell Golyadkin when he asks them to take him to the office in his dream-state?
(a) He has to pay for the trip he just took.
(b) They have already taken him.
(c) They have orders not to take him to the office.
(d) They cannot take a man who is two men.

3. How does Golyadkin act toward his double at his house?
(a) He is indifferent toward him.
(b) He is off-handed.
(c) He is magnanimous.
(d) He is hostile.

4. What gives Golyadkin a “voluptuous pleasure”?
(a) Condemning Golyadkin Junior.
(b) Planning his revenge.
(c) Rehearsing how he had been wronged.
(d) Rubbing salt in his wounds.

5. What sensation does the reader get when Golyadkin says that he keeps to the straight and narrow, and that he despises deviousness?
(a) Irony.
(b) Outrageousness.
(c) Forthrightness.
(d) Humor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which aspect of Golyadkin Junior’s personality does Golyadkin despise?

2. What solution does Klara Olsufyevna propose?

3. How does Golyadkin Junior treat Andrey Filippovich?

4. How does Golyadkin refer to himself when he is berating himself?

5. What sensation floods through Golyadkin after a night of carousing with Golyadkin Junior?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Golyadkin Junior take advantage of Golyadkin?

2. What happens after Golyadkin leaves the office at the end of the day?

3. What trick does Golyadkin Junior play on Golyadkin when he leaves the coffee house where they have been talking?

4. What is the outcome of Golyadkin’s appeal to His Excellency?

5. How does Golyadkin Junior insult Golyadkin at the office?

6. What are Golyadkin’s feelings as he concludes the night with Golyadkin Junior?

7. Describe what happens when Golyadkin reaches Andrey Filippovich’s house.

8. How have things changed when Golyadkin wakes up in the morning after his drunken night with Golyadkin Junior.

9. What response does Golyadkin get to his letter?

10. What does the narrator say about Golyadkin’s tendency to exacerbate his feelings?

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