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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do others say about the writer's discussion of himself?
(a) He is interesting.
(b) He is worthless.
(c) He is bragging.
(d) He is an honorable man.

2. How does the writer describe St. Petersburg?
(a) Like hell on earth.
(b) Abstract and premeditated.
(c) A beautiful city.
(d) Paradise.

3. During this time in the writer's life, he states that he is tormented. Why is he tormented?
(a) No one is like him.
(b) He loses his love.
(c) He is just like everyone else.
(d) He despises working.

4. Why does the writer want to continue living?
(a) Satisfy his rational capacity.
(b) To spite the gentlemen.
(c) To learn to be a man of action.
(d) To satisfy his capacity for living.

5. When the writer goes back to the dinner party after being outside, what does he find?
(a) Only Zverkov remains.
(b) The others are gone.
(c) The establishment is closed.
(d) The others are talking and laughing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the writer state would be his primary cause for any action?

2. At the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 5, the writer has left the dinner and is outside. How does he describe the snow?

3. Who is Anton Atonych Setchkin?

4. When a man identifies the primary cause of an action, how does he go about this action?

5. Why would the writer lower his eyes when he comes in contact with the office clerks?

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