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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Golyadkin mean when he says that something is a “Russian proverb”?
(a) It is a silly nothing.
(b) It is a learned bit of wisdom.
(c) It is childish and nonsensical.
(d) It is a folk saying.

3. Which of the following best describes Golyadkin’s mood when he finally enters the party?
(a) Angry.
(b) Frenzied.
(c) Irresolute.
(d) Brash.

4. What does Golyadkin say when he finally catches his double?
(a) “I’m sorry, I must be mistaken.’
(b) “What is the meaning of this interruption?”
(c) “Who told you I was here?”
(d) “You’re me.”

5. Where does Golyadkin go from Krestyan Ivanovich’s office?
(a) Nevsky Prospekt.
(b) Home.
(c) Olsufy Ivanovich’s house.
(d) The office.

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

7. What sensation does Golyadkin have as he leaves Olsufy Ivanovich’s house?
(a) That everyone is watching him from the windows.
(b) That he is the victim of a profound misunderstanding.
(c) That someone has placed a curse on him.
(d) That he has just lost his chance at a promotion.

8. How does Golyadkin speak?
(a) In roundabout phrases.
(b) In nonsensical gibberish.
(c) In flowery metaphors.
(d) Directly.

9. How did Olsufy Ivanovich suffer his disability?
(a) During the war.
(b) Falling from a horse.
(c) At birth.
(d) In an industrial accident.

10. What tone does Golyadkin take with his younger colleagues?
(a) Buffoonery.
(b) Bonhomie.
(c) Cynicism.
(d) Aloofness.

11. How does Golyadkin refer to Olsufy Ivanovich?
(a) As his uncle.
(b) As his tormentor.
(c) As his good friend.
(d) As his benefactor.

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

13. What time is it when Golyadkin leaves the banquet?
(a) Two a.m.
(b) 10 p.m.
(c) Four a.m.
(d) Midnight.

14. What is the literary term for difference between Golyadkin’s description of himself and the narrator’s account of his actions?
(a) Irony.
(b) Personification.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Synecdoche.

15. What disconcerts Golyadkin when he is in the carriage?
(a) He is self-conscious about his clothing.
(b) He remembers an important errand he needed to run.
(c) He encounters the woman he hoped to see.
(d) He meets two younger clerks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Golyadkin Junior lead Golyadkin when he chases him?

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

3. What is Golyadkin doing when Petrushka finds him?

4. What is the narrator’s as he describes Golyadkin’s shopping trip?

5. When Golyadkin wakes up, Dostoevsky says that he discovers he lives in Petersburg, not in some other place: where is that other place?

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