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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Luzhin disappear to at the ball?
(a) An armchair by the staircase.
(b) A nook behind the decorated tree.
(c) The coat room closet.
(d) A private room upstairs.

2. When does Luzhin feel a strange emptiness, as he prepares for his wedding?
(a) When he suddenly catches a glimpse of himself in the mirror.
(b) Whenever he is surrounded by people.
(c) When he is alone, in the early morning or late night.
(d) All the time.

3. At the end of Chapter 8, where is Luzhin trying to go?
(a) To his fiancee's parents' house.
(b) To the place he stayed with his father in Germany as a boy.
(c) To the manor house he remembers from his youth.
(d) To his hotel.

4. Who is Petrishchev, the man Luzhin winds up talking to at the ball?
(a) A Brazilian plantation worker who was Luzhin's former classmate.
(b) A Canadian store owner who knew Mrs. Luzhin as a girl.
(c) A Parisian banker who was Luzhin's former chess opponent.
(d) An Egyptian hotel clerk who has Luzhin's aunt's godchild.

5. What children does Mrs. Luzhin's visitor have?
(a) A little boy and a little girl.
(b) Two little girls.
(c) A little boy.
(d) A little girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Luzhin's father invite to Luzhin's birthday?

2. When Luzhin suggests teaching his son chess, where in the country house do they find a chess set?

3. What is Luzhin's future mother-in-law's prime objection to her daughter marrying Luzhin?

4. Who does Luzhin play chess with at his aunt's house?

5. Who begins to teach Luzhin chess?

(see the answer key)

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