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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 reason does the narrator give for his inability to describe the scene at the banquet?
2. What is Golyadkin’s frame of reference for understanding the banquet?
3. What is the literary term for difference between Golyadkin’s description of himself and the narrator’s account of his actions?
4. What does Golyadkin lose on his way home from the banquet?
5. How is Golyadkin used to salving his conscience?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Dostoevsky say about the money Golyadkin counts and relishes?
2. 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?
3. Describe Golyadkin’s arrival at work the morning after the banquet.
4. Describe Golyadkin’s carriage journey in Chapter 1.
5. Describe Golyadkin’s entrance into Krestyan Ivanovich’s office.
6. Describe the weather into which Golyadkin is expelled from the banquet.
7. What kinds of goods does Golyadkin go shopping for at Nevsky Prospekt?
8. What confession does Golyadkin make to Krestyan Ivanovich?
9. Describe Golyadkin’s departure from the banquet.
10. What is the literary effect of the scene in Krestyan Ivanovich’s office?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Make an argument for the genre that best describes The Double. Is it a parody? A satire? A morality tale? A philosophical discourse on uncanniness? A psychological study of madness—or something else. Explain why the term you chose is the better fit than the others.
Essay Topic 2
Who is the audience for The Double? What is the ideal reader for The Double likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
Essay Topic 3
Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.
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