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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best characterizes the narrator’s technique of describing the banquet by accounting for his inability to describe the event sufficiently?
(a) As false propriety.
(b) As belligerence.
(c) As false modesty.
(d) As rodomontade.

2. What does Golyadkin leave each of the shopkeepers with?
(a) Insults.
(b) His card.
(c) Promises to return with a deposit.
(d) Payment in full.

3. What happens when Golyadkin tries to address Klara Olsufyevna?
(a) He begins well, then stumbles and loses his head.
(b) He stammers, cannot ultimately speak, and retreats in shame.
(c) Vladimir Semyonovich cuts him off before he can begin.
(d) He addresses her in the most flattering terms, and she dances with him.

4. Which of the following best characterizes Golyadkin’s entrance to the party?
(a) Dashing.
(b) Graceful.
(c) Bumbling.
(d) Sly.

5. What unpleasant impression does Golyadkin have as he leaves Krestyan Ivanovich’s office?
(a) He realizes that he left his money at Krestyan Ivanovich’s office.
(b) He realizes that Krestyan Ivanovich had insulted him.
(c) He remembers the actual reason fro his visit.
(d) He sees Krestyan Ivanovich watching him from the window.

Short Answer Questions

1. What plot does Golyadkin say is afoot?

2. How does Dostoevsky characterize Golyadkin’s personality?

3. Which of the following best describes Golyadkin’s mood when he finally enters the party?

4. How does Golyadkin describe himself?

5. What season does The Double take place in?

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