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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. Who is depicted atop the bookcase in the new apartment?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Dante.
(d) Milton.

2. What is Luzhin's father-in-law doing when Luzhin visits him at his office?
(a) Meeting with a colleague.
(b) Dictating.
(c) Taking a nap.
(d) Reading some papers.

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

4. What is Luzhin given by the coat room when he turns in his jacket at the ball?
(a) A plastic card.
(b) A paper ticket.
(c) A cloth marker.
(d) A metal number.

5. What does Luzhin think vaguely of, but is unable to recall, while he is ill in the sanatorium?
(a) The smell of his aunt's perfume.
(b) His first chess set.
(c) His mother's hard candies.
(d) His grandfather's chess magazines.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is more drunk, Kurt or Gunther?

2. What book does Mrs. Luzhin read aloud to her husband?

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

4. What excuse does Luzhin make for his sullenness and silence?

5. What is the house number of Luzhin's father's former house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Luzhin's fiancee feel about their new apartment as she furnishes it?

2. How does Luzhin's fiancee's mother react to the idea that Luzhin is drunk?

3. How does Luzhin act in the days before his wedding?

4. What upsets Luzhien about the geography of the world?

5. Why does Mrs. Luzhin find it difficult to locate her husband at the ball?

6. What does Luzhin realize when he overhears his wife talking to her visitor?

7. What does Luzhin's future mother-in-law feel as the wedding approaches?

8. What is Mrs. Luzhin reminded of when she reads Soviet newspapers?

9. What letter does Luzhin send to a stranger?

10. What word keeps going through Mrs. Luzhin's mind on her wedding night, and what does it mean?

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