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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Golyadkin Junior tell Golyadkin he felt toward him?
(a) Malicious irony.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Desperate hope.

2. What new issue does Golyadkin’s last resort raise to him?
(a) His gambling debts.
(b) His financial status.
(c) His treatment of a young lady.
(d) His failures in his latest reports.

3. Who does Golyadkin think he can appeal to?
(a) Andrey Filippovich.
(b) No one.
(c) Golyadkin Junior himself.
(d) Olsufy Ivanovich.

4. How do the clerks characterize Golyadkin’s appearance?
(a) Relaxed as befits a colleague.
(b) Dignified like an ambassador.
(c) Pomaded like a fop.
(d) Slovenly like a Russian.

5. How is Golyadkin described at the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) He is so fragile a mosquito wing could break him.
(b) He is so confused he is stumbling around and not making sense.
(c) He is beside himself with grief.
(d) He is determined to have his confrontation with Golyadkin Junior.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Golyadkin upon leaving the banquet?

2. How does Golyadkin describe himself?

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

4. What is Olsufy Ivanovich’s disability?

5. Why does Golyadkin stop to visit Krestyan Ivanovich?

(see the answer key)

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