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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which literary term describes the narrator speaking directly to the reader?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Narrative intrusion.
(c) Direct discourse.
(d) Personification.

2. What does Golyadkin believe Golyadkin Junior is responsible for when he sees him in his sleeplessness?
(a) His theft of the wallet full of rubles.
(b) His fall from grace.
(c) His desire for attention and approval.
(d) His bestial impulses.

3. Where is Golyadkin before he enters the banquet?
(a) In the back hall entrance stairwell.
(b) In the entryway.
(c) In the alley.
(d) In his carriage.

4. What does Anton Antonovich Setochkin tell Golyadkin?
(a) That he has lost his appeal.
(b) That he will be notified officially tomorrow.
(c) That he has been replaced by Golyadkin Junior.
(d) That he has been charged with perjury.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What time is it when reaches the office?

2. Who does Golyadkin think he can appeal to?

3. What sensation floods through Golyadkin after a night of carousing with Golyadkin Junior?

4. Which of the following best characterizes the narrator’s technique of describing the banquet by accounting for his inability to describe the event sufficiently?

5. How does Golyadkin refer to Olsufy Ivanovich?

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