View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Golyadkin tell His Excellency he wants from him?
(a) Golyadkin Junior’s arrest.
(b) A raise and promotion.
(c) Protection from his enemies
(d) Justice.

6. On what grounds does Golyadkin condemn lksf?
(a) For being immoral.
(b) For being ugly.
(c) For being spoiled.
(d) For being two-faced.

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

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

9. What does Golyadkin believe Golyadkin Junior is responsible for when he sees him in his sleeplessness?
(a) His desire for attention and approval.
(b) His bestial impulses.
(c) His theft of the wallet full of rubles.
(d) His fall from grace.

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

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

12. How did the previous day’s events affect Golyadkin?
(a) They left him unscathed.
(b) They blinded him with a fog.
(c) They shook him to the core.
(d) They twisted his head around.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Golyadkin Junior described at dinner?

2. What gives Golyadkin a “voluptuous pleasure”?

3. What does Golyadkin consider doing?

4. How are Golyadkin’s thoughts characterized when he is at his flat?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 551 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample