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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What power does Golyadkin say he has?

2. Who does Golyadkin blame the previous night’s horrors on?

3. What amount of money is this?

4. Where does Golyadkin go from Krestyan Ivanovich’s office?

5. What does Dostoevsky say Golyadkin has difficulty with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the meaning and significance of Golyadkin’s statement that “it’s not me at all”?

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

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

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

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

6. Describe Golyadkin’s feelings on leaving Olsufy Ivanovich’s house.

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

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

9. Describe Golyadkin’s departure from the banquet.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When is The Double most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

Essay Topic 2

What is the essence of The Double? If you could sum up the insights it brings the reader to, what is the story ultimately about, or rather, what does the story get the reader to see?

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate your own reading of The Double—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

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