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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Luzhin do immediately after proposing to his future wife?
(a) He bursts into laughter.
(b) He leaves the room, without waiting for a reply.
(c) He faints.
(d) He bursts into tears.

2. When Luzhin suggests teaching his son chess, where in the country house do they find a chess set?
(a) In the cellar.
(b) In the attic.
(c) In the library.
(d) Under the stairs.

3. What fundamental drive does Luzhin's future wife have?
(a) The need to understand the world is a logical, organized way.
(b) The need to help any creature that is suffering.
(c) The need to feel superior to others.
(d) The need to romanticize herself to others.

4. What does Luzhin's future wife hear that he does in his room late at night?
(a) Write his memoirs.
(b) Play a famous chess game over and over with a chess set.
(c) Create and write down chess puzzles.
(d) Sit in front of an empty chess board.

5. Who interrupts the chess game?
(a) The substitute teacher.
(b) A new student.
(c) The class bully.
(d) The janitor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the people at the chess tournament tell Luzhin to go?

2. What kind of party does Luzhin's father give in honor of Luzhin's grandfather?

3. What does Luzhin's mother always have beside her, after she injures herself?

4. What does Luzhin's future wife's mother say she represents?

5. Where does Luzhin find himself, as he tries to walk toward where he wants to go?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Luzhin react to being caught cutting school?

2. When Luzhin watches the chess game between his classmates, what move excites him?

3. How does Luzhin senior's wife react when he has to go to town for the day?

4. How doe Luzhin's fiancee seem like a dream to him?

5. How does Valentinov view Luzhin?

6. Before playing with his son, how does Luzhin's father consider his own chess abilities?

7. Why does Luzhin's father decide that the boy he wants to write about, based on his son, will die young?

8. What authors does Luzhin like to read?

9. In Chapter 2, what school subject does Luzhin show interest in?

10. How does Luzhin's future wife feel about introducing him to her family?

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