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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Golyadkin try to explain to himself, as he rushes to his next destination?
(a) Why the authorities were not wrong to take Golyadkin Junior on.
(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 his enemies have sought to persecute him this way.

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

4. Who does Golyadkin Junior say helped him get a position?
(a) Golyadkin’s father.
(b) Golyadkin.
(c) Andrey Filippovich.
(d) An unnamed person.

5. How is Golyadkin described at the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) He is so confused he is stumbling around and not making sense.
(b) He is determined to have his confrontation with Golyadkin Junior.
(c) He is beside himself with grief.
(d) He is so fragile a mosquito wing could break him.

6. Who does Golyadkin think he can appeal to?
(a) Andrey Filippovich.
(b) No one.
(c) Olsufy Ivanovich.
(d) Golyadkin Junior himself.

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

8. What does Golyadkin say he is doing by bring Golyadkin Junior home?
(a) Putting his head in a noose.
(b) Building an alliance.
(c) Complicating everything.
(d) Getting clear of his troubles.

9. Why can’t Golyadkin protest against injury in his sleepless visions?
(a) Because he has participated in a kind of insult himself.
(b) Because he himself has received only minor injuries in his lifetime.
(c) Because he does not deserve the respect of being able to protest.
(d) Because he has done things that are much worse than anything that has been done to him.

10. What is the message of Golyadkin Junior’s poem to Golyadkin?
(a) I am unworthy of you.
(b) You have replaced me.
(c) You make it possible for me to be myself.
(d) Never forget me.

11. Which aspect of Golyadkin Junior’s personality does Golyadkin despise?
(a) His audacity.
(b) His virtues.
(c) His mincing.
(d) His disingenuousness.

12. Which of his body parts does Golyadkin lament?
(a) His eyes.
(b) His feet.
(c) His head.
(d) His belly.

13. What is the tone of the letter Golyadkin receives in response to his letter to Golyadkin Junior?
(a) Accusatory.
(b) Condescending.
(c) Coddling.
(d) Officious.

14. Whom does Golyadkin appeal to as his last resort?
(a) Golyadkin Junior
(b) Anton Antonovich Setochkin.
(c) Olsufy Ivanovich.
(d) Andrey Filippovich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sensation does the reader get when Golyadkin says that he keeps to the straight and narrow, and that he despises deviousness?

2. How does Golyadkin Junior steal the papers from Golyadkin?

3. How does Golyadkin feel when Golyadkin Junior gets away with stealing his papers?

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

5. How does Golyadkin Junior annihilate Golyadkin in the office?

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