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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. How does Chapter Five end, after Golyadkin catches his double?
(a) With a quote.
(b) With a metaphor.
(c) With a question mark.
(d) With an ellipsis.

2. Where does Golyadkin find Petrushka when he looks for him?
(a) In the courtyard.
(b) In the hall.
(c) In bed.
(d) In the street.

3. How is Golyadkin characterized as he leaves the banquet?
(a) Delighted.
(b) Redeemed.
(c) Murdered.
(d) Crushed.

4. What is Golyadkin’s frame of reference for understanding the banquet?
(a) Hearsay.
(b) Cheap French novels.
(c) Personal experience.
(d) Newspaper accounts.

5. How does Golyadkin refer to Olsufy Ivanovich?
(a) As his good friend.
(b) As his benefactor.
(c) As his tormentor.
(d) As his uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Andrey Filippovich?

2. Which of the following best characterizes the narrator’s technique of describing the banquet by accounting for his inability to describe the event sufficiently?

3. What is the occasion for the banquet at State Counsellor Berendyev’s house?

4. What does the narrator mean when he describes the “blessings of a St. Petersburg November”?

5. How do the clerks characterize Golyadkin’s appearance?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the chase the stranger leads Golyadkin on.

3. What does the scene in Krestyan Ivanovich’s office tell the reader about Golyadkin’s personality?

4. Describe Golyadkin’s carriage journey in Chapter 1.

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

6. What is Golyadkin’s relationship with his coworkers?

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

8. Describe Golyadkin’s arrival at Olsufy Ivanovich’s house.

9. What does Dostoevsky say about the money Golyadkin counts and relishes?

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

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