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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What flowers are depicted on Mrs. Luzhin's mother's shawl, which she wears in her cold apartment?
(a) Peonies.
(b) Poppies.
(c) Roses.
(d) Chrysanthemums.

2. Why do Luzhin's in-laws spend time visiting at the Luzhin's house?
(a) It has a working stove.
(b) It has running water.
(c) It has central heating.
(d) It has a new refrigerator.

3. What does Luzhin teach himself, after visiting his father-in-law's office?
(a) How to use a mimeograph machine.
(b) How to type.
(c) How to manage accounting books.
(d) The German tax code.

4. 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 fiancee.
(c) Luzhin's future mother-in-law.
(d) Luzhin's future father-in-law.

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

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

7. Why doesn't Luzhin hide his chess set?
(a) He decides it's best to keep it in the open.
(b) He gets distracted by his drawing and forgets about it.
(c) He loses it before he can hide it.
(d) He can't find a place for it.

8. What is Luzhin's fiancee eating when her parents tackle her about giving up Luzhin at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Hot cereal.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Waffles.
(d) Steak and gravy.

9. What item does Luzhin find in the lining of his pocket?
(a) A ring.
(b) A wooden pawn.
(c) A notebook.
(d) A chess board.

10. What does Luzhin do before saying goodbye to his wife?
(a) He puts on his hat, scarf, and overcoat.
(b) He bathes and shaves.
(c) He takes off his shoes.
(d) He cleans out his pockets.

11. What author does Luzhin's fiancee tell her mother that Luzhin has never read?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) George Eliot.
(c) Thomas Carlyle.
(d) Tolstoy.

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

13. When Mrs. Luzhin comes to bed on her wedding night, where is her husband?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) Taking a walk.
(c) On the sofa.
(d) Asleep.

14. On what floor is the apartment Luzhin's in-laws have rented for the newlyweds?
(a) The third.
(b) The fifth.
(c) The fourth.
(d) The second.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luzhin's new landlady chide him for forgetting?

2. When Luzhin finally comes to his bedroom on his wedding night, where does his wife go?

3. What excuse does Luzhin give for slipping off on his own?

4. What does Mrs. Luzhin wear on her wedding night?

5. When Mrs. Luzhin's intellectual guests gather at the tea table, what is the immediate response?

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