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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Golyadkin go from Krestyan Ivanovich’s office?
(a) The office.
(b) Home.
(c) Nevsky Prospekt.
(d) Olsufy Ivanovich’s house.

2. What is the tone of this opening chapter?
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Caricature.
(c) Realism.
(d) Tragedy.

3. What does Golyadkin leave each of the shopkeepers with?
(a) Payment in full.
(b) Promises to return with a deposit.
(c) His card.
(d) Insults.

4. What power does Golyadkin say he has?
(a) The power to ruin a certain woman’s reputation.
(b) The power to ruin people with their secrets.
(c) The power to harm people with what he knows.
(d) He says that he is powerless.

5. When Golyadkin wakes up, Dostoevsky says that he discovers he lives in Petersburg, not in some other place: where is that other place?
(a) A hell of sorts.
(b) a palace.
(c) His hometown.
(d) A faery realm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Golyadkin’s reaction to seeing the clerks?

2. Which of these things does Golyadkin NOT shop for?

3. How long does Golyadkin wait in the cold before entering the banquet?

4. Where does Golyadkin find Petrushka when he looks for him?

5. What language does most of the discourse at the banquet take place in?

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