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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Luzhin's fiancee think of when she walks with him in the garden of the sanatorium?
(a) A book she read as a child.
(b) A sculpture she saw in a museum.
(c) A poem she loves.
(d) A painting in her mother's home.

2. Where does Luzhin's fiancee's father want her to go away to with her mother, to forget about Luzhin?
(a) Greece.
(b) France.
(c) Italy.
(d) England.

3. Where is Luzhin's father when the idea for a novel about a boy like his son hits him?
(a) At a restaurant, waiting for a meeting that never happens.
(b) At a bar, waiting for a date who doesn't show up.
(c) At a train station, waiting for his son, who doesn't show up.
(d) At a park, passing the time before his train is due to leave.

4. What important historical events does Luzhin's father feel inhibited by having to include in every novel?
(a) World War I and the Russian revolution.
(b) World War I and World War II.
(c) World War I and the Great Depression.
(d) World War I and the Armenian genocide.

5. Who does Kurt think Luzhin is at first?
(a) Koehler.
(b) Gunther.
(c) Eichmann.
(d) Pulvermacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Luzhin find the magazines where he studies chess problems?

2. What does Luzhin's fiancee threaten that she will do, if he starts thinking about chess?

3. What does Luzhin's future wife's mother think of his profession as a chess champion?

4. Where does Luzhin's father send Luzhin, after the chess lesson is interrupted?

5. When Luzhin asks the doctor who he is, what is the psychiatrist's reply?

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