1. How much does Golyadkin spend during his shopping trip?
(a) 1,500 rubles.
(b) 75 rubles.
(c) 100 rubles.
(d) One and a half rubles.

2. Where does Golyadkin Junior go with Golyadkin’s papers?
(a) Home.
(b) Straight to the Director’s office.
(c) To the copyists’.
(d) To the courthouse.

3. What is Golyadkin’s reaction to seeing the clerks?
(a) He is beset with worry.
(b) He is relieved.
(c) He is guilty.
(d) He is scandalized.

4. What troubles Golyadkin in the middle of his shopping trip?
(a) Memories.
(b) Apprehension about the night.
(c) Twinges of conscience.
(d) Hot flashes.

5. How does Golyadkin characterize his own behavior toward his guest?
(a) As highly unusual.
(b) As unprecedented.
(c) As highly proper.
(d) As strictly charitable.

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 blunder does Golyadkin make when he comes into Krestyan Ivanovich’s room?

3. What amount of money is this?

4. Where is Golyadkin before he enters the banquet?

5. What does Golyadkin find missing as he is waiting?

(see the answer key)

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