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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Golyadkin Junior tell Golyadkin when he catches up with him?
(a) That he does not have time to talk.
(b) That he is sorry for the trouble he has cause.
(c) That he knows his fate before Golyadkin knows it himself.
(d) That he will delight in Golyadkin’s ruin.

2. What does Golyadkin decide the morning after the banquet?
(a) To appeal to a benefactor.
(b) To retreat at once.
(c) To attack at the first opportunity.
(d) To keep quiet.

3. What is Golyadkin Junior doing when Golyadkin arrives at the office?
(a) He is talking with clerks.
(b) He is copying out a contract.
(c) He is working at Golyadkin’s desk.
(d) He is going on a special mission.

4. How does Golyadkin feel as he approaches Olsufy Ivanovich’s house?
(a) Filled with good wishes.
(b) Full of dread.
(c) Neither dead nor alive.
(d) Nauseous.

5. What does Golyadkin say is the status of his situation?
(a) It is already signed and sealed.
(b) It will never be resolved.
(c) It depends on catching Golyadkin Junior.
(d) It all remains to be determined.

Short Answer Questions

1. What compels Golyadkin to ring Krestyan Ivanovich’s bell?

2. Which of the following best characterizes the narrator’s technique of describing the banquet by accounting for his inability to describe the event sufficiently?

3. Which of his body parts does Golyadkin lament?

4. Where does Golyadkin rush off to?

5. When Golyadkin wakes up, Dostoevsky says that he discovers he lives in Petersburg, not in some other place: where is that other place?

(see the answer key)

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