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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 time is it when reaches the office?
2. What does Petrushka tell Golyadkin in the morning after Golyadkin had spent the night with Golyadkin Junior?
3. What is the message of Golyadkin Junior’s poem to Golyadkin?
4. Which of his body parts does Golyadkin lament?
5. How does Golyadkin refer to himself when he is berating himself?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Golyadkin plan to resolve the situation with Golyadkin Junior?
2. What requests does Golyadkin make of Petrushka?
3. What is the importance of the letter Golyadkin receives from Klara Olsufyevna?
4. Describe Golyadkin’s state as he chases Golyadkin after they leave the office together, and how does this state relate to Golyadkin’s previous states?
5. How have things changed when Golyadkin wakes up in the morning after his drunken night with Golyadkin Junior.
6. What is Golyadkin’s explanation for Golyadkin Junior’s existence?
7. How does Golyadkin Junior insult Golyadkin at the office?
8. What is Golyadkin Junior like when Golyadkin finds him at the office?
9. Describe the letter Golyadkin writes to Golyadkin Junior before going to the office.
10. What profound experience does Golyadkin have in his sleep?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate the proposition that The Double is best read in a state of comic diversion.
Essay Topic 2
Would you recommend The Double? For what purposes would you recommend The Double, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?
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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