View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What plot does Golyadkin say is afoot?
(a) To imprison Golyadkin.
(b) To murder someone’s reputation.
(c) To murder someone.
(d) To catch a murderer.

2. What blunder does Golyadkin make when he comes into Krestyan Ivanovich’s room?
(a) He takes off his hat.
(b) He sits down without being invited to.
(c) He leaves his hat on.
(d) He speaks before he is spoken to.

3. Where does Golyadkin Junior go with Golyadkin’s papers?
(a) Straight to the Director’s office.
(b) To the copyists’.
(c) Home.
(d) To the courthouse.

4. What does Golyadkin leave each of the shopkeepers with?
(a) Payment in full.
(b) His card.
(c) Promises to return with a deposit.
(d) Insults.

5. What events are omitted between the end of Chapter 5 and the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) The banquet.
(b) The overnight.
(c) Golyadkin meeting his double.
(d) Golyadkin’s morning routine, before he goes to work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these things does Golyadkin NOT shop for?

2. What does Golyadkin lose on his way home from the banquet?

3. What does Golyadkin decide the morning after the banquet?

4. What sensation does the reader get when Golyadkin says that he keeps to the straight and narrow, and that he despises deviousness?

5. How is Golyadkin characterized as he leaves the banquet?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 237 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample