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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following isn’t Golyadkin good at?
(a) Getting places on time.
(b) Managing his servant.
(c) Embellishing his speech.
(d) Focusing on his work.

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

3. What disconcerts Golyadkin when he is in the carriage?
(a) He encounters the woman he hoped to see.
(b) He is self-conscious about his clothing.
(c) He meets two younger clerks.
(d) He remembers an important errand he needed to run.

4. What does Golyadkin dream about after he speaks to Klara Olsufyevna?
(a) Fighting with Vladimir Semyonovich over her honor.
(b) Dying on the spot.
(c) Saving her if a chandelier were to fall.
(d) Spreading rumors about her to revenge himself.

5. Which of the following types of phrases does Golyadkin use often?
(a) Innuendoes.
(b) Hyperboles.
(c) Clichés.
(d) Understatements.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the clerks respond to Golyadkin’s account of himself?

2. What happens when Golyadkin tries to address Klara Olsufyevna?

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

4. What is the literary term for difference between Golyadkin’s description of himself and the narrator’s account of his actions?

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

(see the answer key)

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