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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the narrator describe Golyadkin upon leaving the banquet?
(a) A man who wanted to hide from himself.
(b) A man who had just accomplished his goal.
(c) A man who has just lost everything he hoped for.
(d) A man who was being torn apart by conflicting desires.

3. How is Petrushka’s livery described?
(a) As outrageous.
(b) As bizarre.
(c) As dignified.
(d) As handsome.

4. What is the literary term for difference between Golyadkin’s description of himself and the narrator’s account of his actions?
(a) Irony.
(b) Personification.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Imagery.

5. How does the narrator characterize his account of this story?
(a) Contumacious.
(b) Mendacious.
(c) Salacious.
(d) Veracious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Golyadkin will happen in time?

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

3. What is making the shrieking Golyadkin hears after he leaves the banquet?

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

5. What is Olsufy Ivanovich’s disability?

(see the answer key)

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