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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Golyadkin decide the morning after the banquet?
(a) To keep quiet.
(b) To appeal to a benefactor.
(c) To retreat at once.
(d) To attack at the first opportunity.

2. How do the clerks characterize Golyadkin’s appearance?
(a) Relaxed as befits a colleague.
(b) Pomaded like a fop.
(c) Slovenly like a Russian.
(d) Dignified like an ambassador.

3. Which of the following best characterizes the narrator’s technique of describing the banquet by accounting for his inability to describe the event sufficiently?
(a) As false modesty.
(b) As false propriety.
(c) As belligerence.
(d) As rodomontade.

4. Why does Golyadkin stop to visit Krestyan Ivanovich?
(a) To get medicine.
(b) To confess himself.
(c) To get money.
(d) To make a social call.

5. What compels Golyadkin to ring Krestyan Ivanovich’s bell?
(a) He is impatient to hear Krestyan Ivanovich’s advice.
(b) He looks at his watch and realizes that he is short on time.
(c) He hears footsteps on the stairs.
(d) He needs to hear Krestyan Ivanovich’s opinion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literary term for difference between Golyadkin’s description of himself and the narrator’s account of his actions?

2. Where does Golyadkin Junior end up sitting?

3. What is Golyadkin doing when Petrushka finds him?

4. Which of the following best describes Golyadkin’s thoughts that everything could turn out all right in the end?

5. How do the clerks respond to Golyadkin’s account of himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the weather into which Golyadkin is expelled from the banquet.

2. What does the narrator’s rhetoric have to do with Golyadkin’s tale in particular?

3. Describe Golyadkin’s relationship with Petrushka.

4. What rhetorical stance does the narrator take in describing the banquet at Olsufy Ivanovich’s house, and what is the effect of this stance for the reader?

5. Describe Golyadkin’s entrance into Olsufy Ivanovich’s banquet.

6. What is Golyadkin’s purpose in getting into Olsufy Ivanovich’s banquet?

7. Describe Golyadkin’s first encounter with his double.

8. What is Golyadkin’s sense as he chases the stranger?

9. What kinds of goods does Golyadkin go shopping for at Nevsky Prospekt?

10. Describe Golyadkin’s arrival at work the morning after the banquet.

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