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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can’t Golyadkin protest against injury in his sleepless visions?
(a) Because he himself has received only minor injuries in his lifetime.
(b) Because he does not deserve the respect of being able to protest.
(c) Because he has done things that are much worse than anything that has been done to him.
(d) Because he has participated in a kind of insult himself.

2. What do the cabbies tell Golyadkin when he asks them to take him to the office in his dream-state?
(a) They cannot take a man who is two men.
(b) They have already taken him.
(c) They have orders not to take him to the office.
(d) He has to pay for the trip he just took.

3. 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 false modesty.
(b) As false propriety.
(c) As belligerence.
(d) As rodomontade.

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

5. How is Golyadkin Junior’s demeanor described when he sits in Golyadkin’s flat?
(a) Confident.
(b) Alert.
(c) Downtrodden.
(d) Malicious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Golyadkin tries to address Klara Olsufyevna?

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

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

4. What does Golyadkin believe Golyadkin Junior is responsible for when he sees him in his sleeplessness?

5. What does Golyadkin say it is sinful to do?

(see the answer key)

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