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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the tone of this opening chapter?
(a) Realism.
(b) Caricature.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Tragedy.

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

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

4. What does Golyadkin insist to Andrey Filippovich when he sees him at Olsufy Ivanovich’s house?
(a) That he has a message for him.
(b) That he is the victim of a plot.
(c) That he is here on his own account.
(d) That some misunderstanding has occurred.

5. What explanation is he given?
(a) That Olsufy Ivanovich is angry with him.
(b) None.
(c) That he had caused a scandal.
(d) That he mistook the invitation.

6. How does the narrator describe Golyadkin upon leaving the banquet?
(a) A man who has just lost everything he hoped for.
(b) A man who had just accomplished his goal.
(c) A man who wanted to hide from himself.
(d) A man who was being torn apart by conflicting desires.

7. Why does Golyadkin stop to visit Krestyan Ivanovich?
(a) To make a social call.
(b) To confess himself.
(c) To get medicine.
(d) To get money.

8. Where does Golyadkin Junior end up sitting?
(a) In another room.
(b) In Andrey Filippovich’s office.
(c) Opposite Golyadkin.
(d) In Golyadkin’s seat.

9. What plot does Golyadkin say is afoot?
(a) To murder someone’s reputation.
(b) To catch a murderer.
(c) To imprison Golyadkin.
(d) To murder someone.

10. Which of these things does Golyadkin NOT shop for?
(a) Dinner and tea service.
(b) A carriage.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) Women’s clothing.

11. Where does Golyadkin send his carriage away?
(a) At his home.
(b) At Nevsky Prospekt.
(c) At a restaurant.
(d) At Olsufy Ivanovich’s house.

12. What happens when Golyadkin offers Klara Olsufyevna his hand?
(a) She takes it, but everyone separates them.
(b) She dances with him.
(c) She refuses to take it.
(d) She wipes her hand with a handkerchief.

13. What reason does the narrator give for his inability to describe the scene at the banquet?
(a) He heard contradictory accounts of the banquet.
(b) His pen is too feeble.
(c) He is not accustomed to these people’s customs.
(d) He was not there.

14. What kind of look does Golyadkin assume when Golyadkin Junior approaches him for the first time?
(a) As if he should not be interrupted.
(b) As if he needs help.
(c) As if he has been waiting for Golyadkin Junior.
(d) As if he was minding his own business.

15. How long does Golyadkin wait in the cold before entering the banquet?
(a) All night.
(b) One hour.
(c) Three hours.
(d) Six hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Golyadkin leave each of the shopkeepers with?

2. What is the occasion for the banquet at State Counsellor Berendyev’s house?

3. What does Golyadkin find unusual about Petrushka the morning after the banquet?

4. Which of the following best characterizes the narrator’s technique of describing the banquet by accounting for his inability to describe the event sufficiently?

5. What does Golyadkin will happen in time?

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