View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the narrator’s as he describes Golyadkin’s shopping trip?
(a) Cynical.
(b) Gently mocking.
(c) Bombastic.
(d) Compassionate.

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

4. Which of the following isn’t Golyadkin good at?
(a) Focusing on his work.
(b) Managing his servant.
(c) Getting places on time.
(d) Embellishing his speech.

5. What disconcerts Golyadkin when he is in the carriage?
(a) He remembers an important errand he needed to run.
(b) He encounters the woman he hoped to see.
(c) He is self-conscious about his clothing.
(d) He meets two younger clerks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dostoevsky describe Krestyan Ivanovich?

2. How does Dostoevsky characterize Golyadkin’s reaction to Petrushka’s livery?

3. What is Golyadkin’s feeling about the money in his wallet?

4. How do the clerks characterize Golyadkin’s appearance?

5. How much does Golyadkin spend during his shopping trip?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 291 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample