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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gives Golyadkin a “voluptuous pleasure”?
(a) Planning his revenge.
(b) Rehearsing how he had been wronged.
(c) Condemning Golyadkin Junior.
(d) Rubbing salt in his wounds.

2. What is the manner in which Golyadkin says that Golyadkin Junior has sucked up to people?
(a) Disingenuous.
(b) Wily.
(c) Unctuous.
(d) Officious.

3. How does Golyadkin Junior steal the papers from Golyadkin?
(a) By distracting Golyadkin with another matter.
(b) By saying there is a blot on them.
(c) By confusing Golyadkin with other papers.
(d) By sending Golyadkin on an errand.

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

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

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

7. What does Golyadkin ask Petrushka to do for him?
(a) Prepare dinner.
(b) Stay on as his servant.
(c) Get out at once.
(d) Get a carriage.

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

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

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

11. How does Golyadkin Junior annihilate Golyadkin in the office?
(a) By reciting his sins to the workers there.
(b) By taking his desk.
(c) By insulting him in front of His Excellency.
(d) By wiping his hand after he touches Golyadkin’s hand.

12. What new issue does Golyadkin’s last resort raise to him?
(a) His gambling debts.
(b) His financial status.
(c) His treatment of a young lady.
(d) His failures in his latest reports.

13. What is Golyadkin’s sense of what fate has in store for him?
(a) Something that will reward him at last for his hard work.
(b) Something that will end his troubles for once and for all.
(c) Something to vindicate him.
(d) Something unpleasant.

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

15. Where does Petrushka tell Golyadkin he has been?
(a) Drinking with friends.
(b) To see Andrey Filippovich.
(c) To see good people.
(d) To see Klara Olsufyevna.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anton Antonovich have a medal for?

2. What does Golyadkin say his opinion of Petrushka is?

3. How did the previous day’s events affect Golyadkin?

4. What does Golyadkin say is the status of his situation?

5. What is Golyadkin accused of?

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