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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator’s as he describes Golyadkin’s shopping trip?
(a) Compassionate.
(b) Gently mocking.
(c) Bombastic.
(d) Cynical.

2. How much money does Golyadkin have in his wallet, which he counts over and over again?
(a) 750 rubles.
(b) 50 rubles.
(c) 250 rubles.
(d) 150 rubles.

3. What is Golyadkin’s frame of reference for understanding the banquet?
(a) Cheap French novels.
(b) Newspaper accounts.
(c) Personal experience.
(d) Hearsay.

4. What is the third blunder Golyadkin makes in Krestyan Ivanovich’s room?
(a) He fails to compliment Krestyan Ivanovich.
(b) He forgets why he came.
(c) He makes excuses for himself.
(d) He stutters instead of speaking.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize his account of this story?

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

3. How did Olsufy Ivanovich suffer his disability?

4. What does Golyadkin will happen in time?

5. How does Dostoevsky describe Golyadkin’s appearance?

(see the answer key)

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