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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 sensation floods through Golyadkin after a night of carousing with Golyadkin Junior?
2. What does Petrushka think Golyadkin is planning?
3. What does Golyadkin say he is doing by bring Golyadkin Junior home?
4. What does Golyadkin ask Petrushka to do for him?
5. What does Golyadkin Junior tell Golyadkin he felt toward him?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Golyadkin Junior say he appealed to Golyadkin?
2. What happens after Golyadkin leaves the office at the end of the day?
3. What is Golyadkin’s explanation for Golyadkin Junior’s existence?
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. What is the state of affairs when Golyadkin arrives home and talks with Petrushka?
6. What is Golyadkin Junior like when Golyadkin finds him at the office?
7. What trick does Golyadkin Junior play on Golyadkin when he leaves the coffee house where they have been talking?
8. How does Golyadkin plan to resolve the situation with Golyadkin Junior?
9. Describe the intimacy that develops between Golyadkin and Golyadkin Junior.
10. What is the outcome of Golyadkin’s appeal to His Excellency?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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