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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What excuse does Luzhin make for his sullenness and silence?
(a) A stomach ache.
(b) A back ache.
(c) A toothache.
(d) A headache.

4. Who is taken off in the taxi cab?
(a) Luzhin.
(b) Karl.
(c) Gunther.
(d) Kurt.

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

6. When was the last time Luzhin had been in church before his wedding?
(a) At his father's funeral.
(b) At his mother's funeral.
(c) At his sixteenth birthday.
(d) At his first communion.

7. What does Mrs. Luzhin criticize about her body, as she examines herself in the mirror on her wedding night?
(a) Her legs.
(b) Her neck.
(c) Her belly.
(d) Her hips.

8. Who do the drunk men find waiting up by a lighted window at Luzhin's fiancee's parents' house?
(a) A servant.
(b) Luzhin's future mother-in-law.
(c) Luzhin's fiancee.
(d) Luzhin's future father-in-law.

9. What does Luzhin listen to as he lies awake at night?
(a) The ticking of a clock.
(b) The creakig of the attic floor.
(c) The sounds of dogs in the night.
(d) The chimes of church bells outside.

10. How does Mrs. Luzhin feel when her visitor finally leaves Berlin?
(a) Angry.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Worried.
(d) Sad.

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

12. Who meets Luzhin and his new wife when they arrive home after their reception?
(a) Close friends of Mrs. Luzhin.
(b) Their new servant.
(c) No one.
(d) Luzhin's new in-laws.

13. What are townspeople doing in the area where there are tennis courts in the summer, at the beginning of Chapter 13?
(a) Holding a concert.
(b) Playing hockey.
(c) Having a snowball fight.
(d) Ice skating.

14. What room does Luzhin lock himself into?
(a) The study.
(b) The dining room.
(c) The bathroom.
(d) The bedroom.

15. How does Luzhin's mother-in-law speak to him after the wedding?
(a) She speaks hardly at all, ignoring him.
(b) She speaks constantly but condescendingly, never referring to her new son-in-law.
(c) She speaks in a friendly way, using the familiar form of "you."
(d) She speaks formally and distantly, using the formal form of "you."

Short Answer Questions

1. What else seems odd about Luzhin's old jacket, when Luzhin is trying it on?

2. What two events become mixed up in Luzhin's perception?

3. What is Luzhin like when his fiancee sits with him at the sanatorium?

4. Of the portraits Luzhin makes, which turns out the best?

5. What does Luzhin do in his mind while his wife reads to him?

(see the answer keys)

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