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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What season does The Double take place in?
(a) Spring.
(b) Winter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Autumn.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Golyadkin describe himself?

2. How does Golyadkin protect himself in Krestyan Ivanovich’s room?

3. Who is Andrey Filippovich?

4. Why does Golyadkin stop to visit Krestyan Ivanovich?

5. How does Golyadkin speak?

(see the answer key)

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