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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best characterizes the narrator’s technique of describing the banquet by accounting for his inability to describe the event sufficiently?
(a) As rodomontade.
(b) As false modesty.
(c) As false propriety.
(d) As belligerence.

2. What does Golyadkin dream about after he speaks to Klara Olsufyevna?
(a) Dying on the spot.
(b) Saving her if a chandelier were to fall.
(c) Spreading rumors about her to revenge himself.
(d) Fighting with Vladimir Semyonovich over her honor.

3. Which of the following best characterizes Golyadkin’s entrance to the party?
(a) Bumbling.
(b) Sly.
(c) Graceful.
(d) Dashing.

4. How did the previous day’s events affect Golyadkin?
(a) They blinded him with a fog.
(b) They left him unscathed.
(c) They shook him to the core.
(d) They twisted his head around.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which literary term describes the narrator speaking directly to the reader?

2. What do the cabbies tell Golyadkin when he asks them to take him to the office in his dream-state?

3. What time is it when reaches the office?

4. What is the outcome of Golyadkin’s appeal to Andrey Filippovich?

5. How does Golyadkin Junior annihilate Golyadkin in the office?

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