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

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

3. What time is it when Golyadkin finally gets out of bed?
(a) 10 a.m.
(b) One p.m.
(c) Noon.
(d) Eight a.m.

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

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

6. What shameless trick does Golyadkin Junior play on Golyadkin, for the second time, in His Excellency’s presence?
(a) He wipes his hand after shaking Golyadkin’s hand.
(b) He slaps Golyadkin in the face.
(c) He insults Golyadkin’s name and honor.
(d) He pinches Golyadkin’s cheeks like a child.

7. What does Anton Antonovich Setochkin tell Golyadkin?
(a) That he will be notified officially tomorrow.
(b) That he has been replaced by Golyadkin Junior.
(c) That he has been charged with perjury.
(d) That he has lost his appeal.

8. What does Golyadkin say it is sinful to do?
(a) Abuse someone’s charity.
(b) Complain.
(c) Mock your host.
(d) Send a guest away.

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

10. How does Golyadkin refer to himself when he is berating himself?
(a) As a suicide.
(b) As a dangerous man
(c) As an innocent victim.
(d) As a crazy person.

11. How does Golyadkin Junior harass Golyadkin at the coffee shop?
(a) By making him pay for his pastries.
(b) By stealing his coat.
(c) By spilling coffee on him.
(d) By starting an argument with him, and then disappearing.

12. What does Golyadkin say his opinion of Petrushka is?
(a) He says that he loathes him for his loose morals.
(b) He says that he is deeply disapointed by his disloyalty.
(c) He says that he respects him even though he is a flunkey.
(d) He says that he values him highly and asks him to stay.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sensation floods through Golyadkin after a night of carousing with Golyadkin Junior?

2. What does Anton Antonovich have a medal for?

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

4. What do the cabbies tell Golyadkin when he asks them to take him to the office in his dream-state?

5. What new issue does Golyadkin’s last resort raise to him?

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