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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Chapters V, VI and VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the writer describe his apartment?
(a) Seedy.
(b) Middle-class.
(c) Fancy.
(d) Squalid.

2. When the writer states that there is something wrong with his liver, why does he refuse to go to a doctor?
(a) His illness is imaginary.
(b) He does not trust doctors.
(c) Out of spite.
(d) He can not afford it.

3. What does the writer compare his writings to?
(a) The mouse.
(b) The man faced with the wall.
(c) The moan of a man with a toothache.
(d) The Waganheims.

4. Why would the writer confess to wrongdoing when he is innocent?
(a) Out of spite.
(b) To save a friend.
(c) He is always at fault.
(d) Just to apologize.

5. How many times has the writer fallen in love?
(a) He is always in love.
(b) Three times.
(c) Never.
(d) Twice.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the writer describe St. Petersburg?

2. What do others say about the writer's discussion of himself?

3. What does the writer say can be assumed about men who roar like bulls?

4. Why does the writer say a man cannot change, even if he tries?

5. What does the writer say has offended him all of his life?

(see the answer key)

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