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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Golyadkin speak?
(a) Directly.
(b) In flowery metaphors.
(c) In nonsensical gibberish.
(d) In roundabout phrases.

2. What is Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin’s rank?
(a) Clerk.
(b) Copyist.
(c) Titular counselor.
(d) Director.

3. What is Olsufy Ivanovich’s disability?
(a) Loss of one hand.
(b) Deafness.
(c) Loss of his legs.
(d) Fake eye.

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

5. What language does most of the discourse at the banquet take place in?
(a) Russian.
(b) English.
(c) Italian.
(d) French.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What time is it when Golyadkin leaves the banquet?

3. Which of the following best characterizes Golyadkin’s entrance to the party?

4. What kind of look does Golyadkin assume when Golyadkin Junior approaches him for the first time?

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

(see the answer key)

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