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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the occasion for the banquet at State Counsellor Berendyev’s house?
(a) Olsufy Ivanovich’s promotion.
(b) State Counsellor Berendyev’s retirement.
(c) Klara Olsufyevna’s engagement.
(d) Klara Olsufyevna’s birthday.

2. What does Golyadkin say would have happened if it weren’t for “this, all this”?
(a) He would have been promoted.
(b) He would have had a chance with Klara Olsufyevna.
(c) He would have redeemed himself through hard work.
(d) Everything would have been settled in one stroke.

3. How did Olsufy Ivanovich suffer his disability?
(a) At birth.
(b) During the war.
(c) Falling from a horse.
(d) In an industrial accident.

4. How does the narrator characterize his account of this story?
(a) Salacious.
(b) Mendacious.
(c) Veracious.
(d) Contumacious.

5. Where does Golyadkin send his carriage away?
(a) At Nevsky Prospekt.
(b) At Olsufy Ivanovich’s house.
(c) At a restaurant.
(d) At his home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which literary term describes the narrator speaking directly to the reader?

2. What does Petrushka tell Golyadkin in the morning after Golyadkin had spent the night with Golyadkin Junior?

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

4. Whom does Golyadkin appeal to as his last resort?

5. Which of his body parts does Golyadkin lament?

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