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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. Why is Luzhin afraid of at school?
(a) That he will not be able to pass his classes.
(b) That others will find out his chess ability and make fun of him.
(c) That someone else will be better than him at chess.
(d) That bullies will beat him up.

2. Who sketches Luzhin and Turati at the chess tournament in Berlin?
(a) A famous sculpter.
(b) A newspaper sketch artist.
(c) Luzhin's fiancee.
(d) A local portrait painter.

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

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

5. What does Luzhin's father suspect his son of looking for in illustrated magazines?
(a) Articles about his father.
(b) Pictures of far-off lands.
(c) Chess puzzles.
(d) Naked women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What title does Luzhin's father give his imagined novella about a boy like his son?

2. How does Luzhin usually travel to school?

3. What does Luzhin do when he goes up to his room after he's met his future wife's mother?

4. What does Luzhin drop that his future wife picks up and returns to him?

5. What does Luzhin like most at his birthday party?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Luzhin feel about his aunt?

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

3. What does Luzhin resent while he is working on a puzzle?

4. Why does Luzhin's mother leave her husband and son to return to Russia, and how does Luzhin's father react?

5. How does Luzhin's father feel when he finally hears that his son is a prodigy?

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

7. How does Luzhin feel about playing chess blind?

8. How does Luzhin behave on walks with his future wife and her mother?

9. What authors does Luzhin like to read?

10. How does Luzhin's father die?

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