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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How long has Golyadkin reserved a carriage for?
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. What sensation does Golyadkin have as he leaves Olsufy Ivanovich’s house?
4. How does Dostoevsky characterize Golyadkin’s personality?
5. What spurs Golyadkin to turn and leave after his conversation with Andrey Filippovich?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the scene of Golyadkin’s waking after chasing Golyadkin Junior.
2. What does Dostoevsky say about the money Golyadkin counts and relishes?
3. What confession does Golyadkin make to Krestyan Ivanovich?
4. Describe Golyadkin’s arrival at Olsufy Ivanovich’s house.
5. What rhetorical stance does the narrator take in describing the banquet at Olsufy Ivanovich’s house, and what is the effect of this stance for the reader?
6. Describe Golyadkin’s arrival at work the morning after the banquet.
7. What is Golyadkin’s purpose in getting into Olsufy Ivanovich’s banquet?
8. Describe the reader’s introduction to Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin.
9. What is Golyadkin’s sense as he chases the stranger?
10. What is the meaning and significance of Golyadkin’s statement that “it’s not me at all”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.
Essay Topic 2
What is the role of women in Petersburg society, and in Golyadkin’s life? How does Dostoevsky describe the women in The Double? How is their society different from men’s?
Essay Topic 3
What are the particular techniques Dostoevsky uses to convey the horror of Golyadkin’s situation? How does he keep the reader’s interest, and preserve the reader’s sense of strangeness in this encounter? What information is provided, and what information is withheld?
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