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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Golyadkin tell himself about the letter he has written?
(a) That he will lose everything if his letter does not have the effect he intended.
(b) That he is within his rights.
(c) That Golyadkin Junior is getting off easy.
(d) That he really deserves satisfaction through violence.

2. How is Golyadkin Junior’s demeanor described when he sits in Golyadkin’s flat?
(a) Malicious.
(b) Downtrodden.
(c) Confident.
(d) Alert.

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

4. What solution does Klara Olsufyevna propose?
(a) She wants Golyadkin to be killed.
(b) She wants Golyadkin Junior to fight a duel with Golyadkin.
(c) She wants to be married.
(d) She wants to elope with Golyadkin Junior.

5. What time is it when reaches the office?
(a) 10 a.m.
(b) Noon.
(c) 2:30 p.m.
(d) 3:30 p.m.

6. What does Klara Olsufyevna’s letter to Golyadkin Junior claim?
(a) That she loves him.
(b) That she has instigated this scandal of the double.
(c) That Golyadkin has slandered her.
(d) That Golyadkin is going to be arrested.

7. What do the cabbies tell Golyadkin when he asks them to take him to the office in his dream-state?
(a) They have already taken him.
(b) They have orders not to take him to the office.
(c) He has to pay for the trip he just took.
(d) They cannot take a man who is two men.

8. Where does Golyadkin rush off to?
(a) Golyadkin Junior’s lodging house.
(b) Andrey Filippovich’s house.
(c) State Counsellor Berendyev’s house.
(d) Olsufy Ivanovich’s house.

9. What does Anton Antonovich have a medal for?
(a) International distinction.
(b) Excellence in leadership.
(c) Twenty years service.
(d) Bravery in war.

10. What is the outcome of Golyadkin’s appeal to Andrey Filippovich?
(a) They are interrupted, and nothing happens.
(b) Golyadkin Junior interrupts him and turns Andrey Filippovich against him.
(c) Golyadkin stutters and cannot say anything.
(d) Andrey Filippovich sends him away.

11. What is Golyadkin accused of?
(a) Slander
(b) Gambling.
(c) Murder.
(d) Immoral behavior.

12. What does Golyadkin Junior chide Golyadkin for in His Excellency’s presence?
(a) Using the wrong form of address.
(b) Not knowing whom he is talking to.
(c) Slandering him.
(d) Having shown up at an inopportune time.

13. What does Golyadkin Junior tell Golyadkin when he catches up with him?
(a) That he is sorry for the trouble he has cause.
(b) That he will delight in Golyadkin’s ruin.
(c) That he does not have time to talk.
(d) That he knows his fate before Golyadkin knows it himself.

14. What is Golyadkin Junior doing when Golyadkin arrives at the office?
(a) He is working at Golyadkin’s desk.
(b) He is going on a special mission.
(c) He is talking with clerks.
(d) He is copying out a contract.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Golyadkin refer to himself when he is berating himself?

2. Whose work does Golyadkin say created all his troubles?

3. How does Golyadkin Junior greet Golyadkin?

4. To whom does Golyadkin try to attribute the complications owing to his double?

5. Where does Petrushka tell Golyadkin he has been?

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