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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the literary term for difference between Golyadkin’s description of himself and the narrator’s account of his actions?
(a) Personification.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Irony.
(d) Synecdoche.

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

3. What does Golyadkin find unusual about Petrushka the morning after the banquet?
(a) His belligerence.
(b) His silence.
(c) His absence.
(d) His self-satisfaction.

4. What unpleasant impression does Golyadkin have as he leaves Krestyan Ivanovich’s office?
(a) He sees Krestyan Ivanovich watching him from the window.
(b) He realizes that Krestyan Ivanovich had insulted him.
(c) He realizes that he left his money at Krestyan Ivanovich’s office.
(d) He remembers the actual reason fro his visit.

5. How does Dostoevsky describe Krestyan Ivanovich?
(a) Sallow old chap.
(b) Virile middle-aged father.
(c) Brisk young man.
(d) Healthy older gentleman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What compels Golyadkin to ring Krestyan Ivanovich’s bell?

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

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

4. How does Golyadkin describe himself?

5. How does Chapter Five end, after Golyadkin catches his double?

(see the answer key)

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