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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Luzhin's grades at school?
(a) Luzhin is given incompletes for not finishing his work.
(b) Perfect.
(c) High.
(d) Low.

2. Where do the people at the chess tournament tell Luzhin to go?
(a) To his hotel.
(b) Back to Russia.
(c) Out of Berlin.
(d) Home.

3. What city does the family live in?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Stalingrad.
(c) Novosibirsk.
(d) St. Petersberg.

4. When Luzhin's fiancee's father meets Luzhin, what does he offer the chess champion?
(a) A snack.
(b) A glass of water.
(c) A glass of wine.
(d) A cigarette.

5. How does Luzhin's first wife's mother find out Luzhin wants to marry her daughter?
(a) The mother overhears Luzhin and the daughter talking.
(b) The mother is told by a stranger at the hotel.
(c) Luzhin asks the mother for her daughter's hand.
(d) The daughter tells her mother.

6. What is Luzhin's response to his father, when his father comes to visit him at school?
(a) Luzhin cries and yells at his father.
(b) Luzhin talks a mile a minute to his father.
(c) Luzhin shows little interest in his father.
(d) Luzhin is happy and wants his father to stay.

7. At the end of Luzhin's first day of play against Turati, what does Luzhin feel unable to do?
(a) Stay awake.
(b) Walk.
(c) Get up from his seat.
(d) Stay in the chess tournament room.

8. During their walk the morning after the party, what does Luzhin's father suggest he take up?
(a) Music.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Drawing.
(d) Chess.

9. What does Luzhin like most at his birthday party?
(a) The guests.
(b) The presents.
(c) The cake.
(d) The magician.

10. In Luzhin's championship game against Turati, how does Turati open the game?
(a) With a startlingly aggressive, unfamiliar move.
(b) With a laughingly stupid move.
(c) With his usual, successful move.
(d) With an ordinary, banal move.

11. Where does Luzhin's father send Luzhin, after the chess lesson is interrupted?
(a) The park.
(b) Luzhin's room.
(c) The attic.
(d) School.

12. What does Luzhin's future wife's mother think of his profession as a chess champion?
(a) She thinks it is hysterically amusing.
(b) She thinks it is romantic but unwise.
(c) She thinks it is trivial and ridiculous.
(d) She thinks it is exciting but low-paying.

13. What excuse does Luzhin give the first day he skips school?
(a) Family circumstances.
(b) That he was sick.
(c) That his grandmother died.
(d) That he twisted his ankle.

14. Whose chess set does Luzhin get interested in?
(a) His father's.
(b) His mother's.
(c) His teacher's.
(d) A party guest's.

15. What does Luzhin drop that his future wife picks up and returns to him?
(a) A pocket watch.
(b) A wallet.
(c) A ring.
(d) A handkerchief.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has been educating Luzhin at home, before his enrollment in school?

2. What present does Luzhin's fiancee bring to him at his hotel room?

3. Where are Luzhin and his father when Archduke Ferdinand is killed, starting World War I?

4. When Luzhin meets his future wife's mother, what is the mother's opinion of him?

5. When Luzhin comes back to his family's house, where in the house does he hide?

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