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

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

3. What is Anton Antonovich Setochkin’s profession?
(a) Chief Clerk.
(b) Titular Counsellor.
(c) Clerk.
(d) Department Head.

4. Whom does Golyadkin say he complimented recently?
(a) Klara Olsufyevna.
(b) Andrey Filippovich.
(c) Karolina Ivanovna.
(d) Olsufy Ivanovich.

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

Short Answer 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?

2. What does Golyadkin lose on his way home from the banquet?

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

4. What does Krestyan Ivanovich tell Golyadkin he has to do?

5. What explanation is he given?

(see the answer key)

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