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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Golyadkin’s frame of reference for understanding the banquet?
(a) Cheap French novels.
(b) Personal experience.
(c) Hearsay.
(d) Newspaper accounts.

2. What does Golyadkin mean when he says that something is a “Russian proverb”?
(a) It is childish and nonsensical.
(b) It is a folk saying.
(c) It is a silly nothing.
(d) It is a learned bit of wisdom.

3. What does Golyadkin dream about after he speaks to Klara Olsufyevna?
(a) Fighting with Vladimir Semyonovich over her honor.
(b) Spreading rumors about her to revenge himself.
(c) Saving her if a chandelier were to fall.
(d) Dying on the spot.

4. Which of the following types of phrases does Golyadkin use often?
(a) Hyperboles.
(b) Innuendoes.
(c) Understatements.
(d) Clichés.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does the narrator give for his inability to describe the scene at the banquet?

2. Where do Andrey Filippovich and Golyadkin have their conversation?

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

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

5. What is the third blunder Golyadkin makes in Krestyan Ivanovich’s room?

(see the answer key)

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