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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year is the desk calendar that Luzhin's fiancee finds in his room?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1928.

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

3. Who sketches Luzhin and Turati at the chess tournament in Berlin?
(a) A local portrait painter.
(b) Luzhin's fiancee.
(c) A newspaper sketch artist.
(d) A famous sculpter.

4. After Luzhin disappears, what does Petrishchev think?
(a) Petrishchev thinks he's offended Luzhin.
(b) Petrishchev thinks he's mistaken Luzhin for someone else.
(c) Petrishchev thinks Luzhin has grown rude in his old age.
(d) Petrishchev thinks he imagined Luzhin the whole time.

5. When he wakes in the hospital, what does Luzhin ask a nurse?
(a) What time is it?
(b) What day is it?
(c) Where am I?
(d) Who are you?

Short Answer Questions

1. When Luzhin's family arrives in the city, where does Luzhin run off to?

2. How does Luzhin hurt himself during the chess game with Turati?

3. Who is more drunk, Kurt or Gunther?

4. Who is Petrishchev, the man Luzhin winds up talking to at the ball?

5. Who does Kurt think Luzhin is at first?

(see the answer key)

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