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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Golyadkin feel as he approaches Olsufy Ivanovich’s house?
(a) Full of dread.
(b) Neither dead nor alive.
(c) Nauseous.
(d) Filled with good wishes.

2. What does Golyadkin say about the letter he wrote to Golyadkin Junior?
(a) He disavows it.
(b) He qualifies it.
(c) He says that he was not sane when he wrote it.
(d) He reasserts his challenge.

3. How does Golyadkin act toward his double at his house?
(a) He is magnanimous.
(b) He is off-handed.
(c) He is indifferent toward him.
(d) He is hostile.

4. When Golyadkin wakes up, Dostoevsky says that he discovers he lives in Petersburg, not in some other place: where is that other place?
(a) A hell of sorts.
(b) His hometown.
(c) A faery realm.
(d) a palace.

5. What does Golyadkin try to explain to himself, as he rushes to his next destination?
(a) Why his enemies have sought to persecute him this way.
(b) Why Golyadkin Junior is violating the laws of propriety.
(c) What sins he must have committed, that he should be haunted by a double.
(d) Why the authorities were not wrong to take Golyadkin Junior on.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Golyadkin described at the beginning of Chapter 11?

2. What does Petrushka tell Golyadkin in the morning after Golyadkin had spent the night with Golyadkin Junior?

3. How do the clerks respond to Golyadkin’s account of himself?

4. What is Golyadkin told when he arrives at Olsufy Ivanovich’s house?

5. What is Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin’s rank?

(see the answer key)

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