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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Golyadkin protect himself in Krestyan Ivanovich’s room?
(a) With a steady stream of self-praise.
(b) With aggressive questions.
(c) With a defiant look.
(d) With a pugnacious attitude.

2. What does Golyadkin decide the morning after the banquet?
(a) To attack at the first opportunity.
(b) To appeal to a benefactor.
(c) To keep quiet.
(d) To retreat at once.

3. How does Golyadkin feel as he approaches Olsufy Ivanovich’s house?
(a) Full of dread.
(b) Neither dead nor alive.
(c) Nauseous.
(d) Filled with good wishes.

4. Who does Golyadkin blame the previous night’s horrors on?
(a) Himself.
(b) Petrushka.
(c) His enemies.
(d) Fate.

5. What power does Golyadkin say he has?
(a) The power to ruin a certain woman’s reputation.
(b) The power to ruin people with their secrets.
(c) He says that he is powerless.
(d) The power to harm people with what he knows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Anton Antonovich Setochkin’s profession?

2. What does Golyadkin find unusual about Petrushka the morning after the banquet?

3. What is Golyadkin’s reaction to seeing the clerks?

4. What does the narrator mean when he describes the “blessings of a St. Petersburg November”?

5. What did Golyadkin expect when he entered the office?

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