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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Luzhin feel the morning after his father's party?
(a) Luzhin is bored.
(b) Luzhin is exhausted.
(c) Luzhin is excited.
(d) Luzhin is angry.

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

3. At the beginning of the novel, what does the main character associate the name "Luzhin" with?
(a) Himself.
(b) His mother.
(c) Nothing.
(d) His father.

4. What does Luzhin do when he gets into the cab with his new wife after the wedding reception?
(a) He tries to kiss her.
(b) He begins talking incomprehensibly.
(c) He falls asleep.
(d) He sits silently and sullenly.

5. How do Luzhin and his wife enter the ball?
(a) One following the other.
(b) From separate doors.
(c) Arm in arm.
(d) Back to back.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Luzhin's problem in school?

2. What does Luzhin think vaguely of, but is unable to recall, while he is ill in the sanatorium?

3. At the wedding reception, how much champagne does Luzhin drink?

4. Where does Luzhin's fiancee's father want her to go away to with her mother, to forget about Luzhin?

5. At the end of Luzhin's first day of play against Turati, what does Luzhin feel unable to do?

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