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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 is the purpose of the dinner party?
(a) It is a weekly event.
(b) One of the firends is going on a journey.
(c) To visit with the writer, whom the others had not see in years.
(d) To celebrate the promotion of one of the friends.

2. What does the writer want from Liza?
(a) For her to disappear.
(b) For her to love him.
(c) For her to leave his home.
(d) For her to find an honorable profession.

3. How old is the writer when he avoids talking to or associating with others?
(a) 32 years old.
(b) 29 years old.
(c) 40 years old.
(d) 24 years old.

4. As the diner conversation begins, how does the writer feel?
(a) Saddened.
(b) Irritated.
(c) Happy,
(d) Relieved.

5. What day does Anton allow visitors?
(a) Monday.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Friday.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the writer "plunge into society"?

2. How does the writer feel about the office clerks?

3. What does the writer say he would do if he sees Liza again?

4. Where is Liza from?

5. What is the writer certain Liza will do with a letter she receives?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Zverkov's attitude toward the writer?

2. In Part 2, Chapter 7 the writer is having a conversation with Liza and describes her duties to men. What does he say she must do if he whistles at her?

3. How does the writer describe the room he finds himself in after being drunk at the dinner party?

4. After the writer has finished his speech to Liza, he turns to leave. Before he goes, she gives him a letter to read. Who was the letter from and what did it say?

5. Describe the apartment of Anton Antonych.

6. Why does the writer think Liza comes to his apartment?

7. The writer describes some office clerks that repulse him. Discuss these characters.

8. In Part 2, Chapter 8, the writer decides to borrow money from his friend Anton Antonych in order to repay Simonov. Why does Anton Antonych so readily lend the money?

9. At the end of Part 2, Chapter 5, the writer is in the room with the prostitute and glances in the mirror. What does he see and how does he feel about it?

10. The writer seems very indecisive at times. While in the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 1 the writer states that he does not socialize with his co-workers, he later tells the reader that he sometimes tries to make friends with them. Discuss his feelings about this change in attitude toward the co-workers.

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