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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does the narrator give for his inability to describe the scene at the banquet?
(a) He heard contradictory accounts of the banquet.
(b) He is not accustomed to these people’s customs.
(c) His pen is too feeble.
(d) He was not there.

2. How does the narrator characterize his account of this story?
(a) Salacious.
(b) Mendacious.
(c) Contumacious.
(d) Veracious.

3. Who does Golyadkin Junior say helped him get a position?
(a) Golyadkin.
(b) Andrey Filippovich.
(c) An unnamed person.
(d) Golyadkin’s father.

4. What is Olsufy Ivanovich’s disability?
(a) Deafness.
(b) Loss of one hand.
(c) Loss of his legs.
(d) Fake eye.

5. What is the message of Golyadkin Junior’s poem to Golyadkin?
(a) You make it possible for me to be myself.
(b) You have replaced me.
(c) I am unworthy of you.
(d) Never forget me.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Golyadkin act toward his double at his house?

3. How is the event from which Golyadkin is turned away characterized?

4. How does Golyadkin refer to Olsufy Ivanovich?

5. What time is it when reaches the office?

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