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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dostoevsky characterize Golyadkin’s personality?
(a) Easy-going.
(b) Delusional.
(c) Buffoonish.
(d) Serious.

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

3. How is the event from which Golyadkin is turned away characterized?
(a) As hedonistic.
(b) As sumptuous.
(c) As excessive.
(d) As spartan.

4. Where does Golyadkin go from Krestyan Ivanovich’s office?
(a) Home.
(b) Nevsky Prospekt.
(c) Olsufy Ivanovich’s house.
(d) The office.

5. How did Olsufy Ivanovich suffer his disability?
(a) At birth.
(b) In an industrial accident.
(c) During the war.
(d) Falling from a horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Petrushka’s livery described?

2. What is Golyadkin doing when Petrushka finds him?

3. What spurs Golyadkin to turn and leave after his conversation with Andrey Filippovich?

4. What does Krestyan Ivanovich tell Golyadkin he has to do?

5. How do the clerks respond to Golyadkin’s account of himself?

(see the answer key)

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