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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the event from which Golyadkin is turned away characterized?
(a) As excessive.
(b) As spartan.
(c) As sumptuous.
(d) As hedonistic.

2. What is making the shrieking Golyadkin hears after he leaves the banquet?
(a) Chains from the prison.
(b) Wind in the church towers.
(c) Ships’ anchor chains.
(d) Lamps in the wind.

3. How does the narrator describe Golyadkin upon leaving the banquet?
(a) A man who was being torn apart by conflicting desires.
(b) A man who wanted to hide from himself.
(c) A man who had just accomplished his goal.
(d) A man who has just lost everything he hoped for.

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

5. How do the clerks characterize Golyadkin’s appearance?
(a) Dignified like an ambassador.
(b) Pomaded like a fop.
(c) Relaxed as befits a colleague.
(d) Slovenly like a Russian.

6. What did Golyadkin expect when he entered the office?
(a) To be fired.
(b) Something bad to happen.
(c) Apologies from Olsufy Ivanovich.
(d) His double to have supplanted him.

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

8. What amount of money is this?
(a) A good deal.
(b) Enough to furnish a small flat.
(c) A paltry sum.
(d) Enough to go out for dinner.

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

10. What does Golyadkin mean when he says that something is a “Russian proverb”?
(a) It is a learned bit of wisdom.
(b) It is childish and nonsensical.
(c) It is a folk saying.
(d) It is a silly nothing.

11. What is the narrator’s as he describes Golyadkin’s shopping trip?
(a) Compassionate.
(b) Cynical.
(c) Gently mocking.
(d) Bombastic.

12. How does Golyadkin protect himself in Krestyan Ivanovich’s room?
(a) With a pugnacious attitude.
(b) With aggressive questions.
(c) With a defiant look.
(d) With a steady stream of self-praise.

13. What spurs Golyadkin to turn and leave after his conversation with Andrey Filippovich?
(a) The arrival of guards.
(b) Voices from within.
(c) Footsteps on the stairs.
(d) The cold.

14. Where does Golyadkin Junior lead Golyadkin when he chases him?
(a) Back to the banquet.
(b) To Nevsky Prospekt.
(c) Back to Golyadkin’s flat.
(d) To the Semyonovsky Bridge.

15. Which of the following best characterizes the narrator’s technique of describing the banquet by accounting for his inability to describe the event sufficiently?
(a) As rodomontade.
(b) As false modesty.
(c) As belligerence.
(d) As false propriety.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize Golyadkin Junior?

2. What troubles Golyadkin in the middle of his shopping trip?

3. What does Golyadkin find unusual about Petrushka the morning after the banquet?

4. How is Petrushka’s livery described?

5. Which of the following types of phrases does Golyadkin use often?

(see the answer keys)

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