2. What do the doctor and Luzhin's fiancee call his years of playing chess?
(a) Dead years.
(b) Mindful years.
(c) Gray years.
(d) Lost years.

3. What does Luzhin's future father-in-law talk to him about privately before his wedding?
(a) Getting Luzhin a job.
(b) Treating Luzhin's future wife kindly.
(c) Luzhin's future mother-in-law's feelings about Luzhin.
(d) Paying him back the money Luzhin owes for his upkeep.

4. How does Luzhin feel about the phonograph?
(a) He finds it irritating and gets upset by the music.
(b) He alternately loves and hates it.
(c) He enjoys sitting and listening to it with his wife.
(d) He loves watching it turn and turn mechanically but doesn't like the music.

5. What excuse does Luzhin give for slipping off on his own?
(a) An appointment with a business associate.
(b) Returning someone's wallet.
(c) Going back to the dentist.
(d) Returning a library book.

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

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

8. Of the portraits Luzhin makes, which turns out the best?
(a) His father-in-law.
(b) His mother-in-law.
(c) His self-portrait.
(d) His wife.

9. What two events become mixed up in Luzhin's perception?
(a) Visiting the dentist and getting his passport.
(b) Buying a hat and visiting a travel agent.
(c) Visitig a travel agent and getting his passport.
(d) Buying a hat and visiting the dentist.

10. After his wife's old friend from Russia visits, how does Luzhin begin seeing his life?
(a) As a machine made of cogs.
(b) As a game of chess.
(c) As a battle.
(d) As a book written by his father.

11. What does Luzhin's fiancee think of when she walks with him in the garden of the sanatorium?
(a) A book she read as a child.
(b) A sculpture she saw in a museum.
(c) A painting in her mother's home.
(d) A poem she loves.

12. What is the Luzhins' maid particularly bat at?
(a) Making the beds.
(b) Baking bread.
(c) Taking phone calls.
(d) Dusting.

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

14. What color does Luzhin choose for his suit?
(a) Dark Brown.
(b) Dark blue.
(c) Tan.
(d) Dark gray.

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