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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 reason does the narrator give for his inability to describe the scene at the banquet?
(a) He was not there.
(b) He is not accustomed to these people’s customs.
(c) His pen is too feeble.
(d) He heard contradictory accounts of the banquet.

2. What is the third blunder Golyadkin makes in Krestyan Ivanovich’s room?
(a) He forgets why he came.
(b) He fails to compliment Krestyan Ivanovich.
(c) He makes excuses for himself.
(d) He stutters instead of speaking.

3. What is Golyadkin’s reaction to seeing the clerks?
(a) He is guilty.
(b) He is scandalized.
(c) He is relieved.
(d) He is beset with worry.

4. What is Anton Antonovich Setochkin’s profession?
(a) Department Head.
(b) Chief Clerk.
(c) Titular Counsellor.
(d) Clerk.

5. What is the tone of this opening chapter?
(a) Caricature.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) Realism.
(d) Tragedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What amount of money is this?

2. How does Golyadkin speak?

3. How does Dostoevsky describe Golyadkin’s appearance?

4. Which literary term describes the narrator speaking directly to the reader?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Golyadkin’s interaction with Andrey Filippovich after his interaction with Gerasimych.

2. Describe Golyadkin’s entrance into Krestyan Ivanovich’s office.

3. Describe the scene of Golyadkin’s waking after chasing Golyadkin Junior.

4. Describe Golyadkin’s shipping trip to Gostiny Dvor.

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

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

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

8. Describe the action that takes place among the characters at the banquet in the beginning of Chapter 4.

9. What is Krestyan Ivanovich’s opinion of Golyadkin?

10. 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?

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