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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. Where is the first place Mrs. Luzhin suggests they travel?
(a) To the French Riviera.
(b) To the Carribean.
(c) To America.
(d) To Venice, Italy.

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

3. Who meets Luzhin and his new wife when they arrive home after their reception?
(a) Luzhin's new in-laws.
(b) Close friends of Mrs. Luzhin.
(c) No one.
(d) Their new servant.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What color does Luzhin choose for his suit?

2. Where does Luzhin disappear to at the ball?

3. What is Luzhin like when his fiancee sits with him at the sanatorium?

4. What does Luzhin's fiancee threaten that she will do, if he starts thinking about chess?

5. When does Luzhin feel a strange emptiness, as he prepares for his wedding?

Short Essay Questions

1. How to Kurt and Karl know where to send Luzhin in the taxi?

2. At the ball, how does Mrs. Luzhin compare the movie actresses to her husband in her mind?

3. What catches Luzhin's attention to distract him from chess that he is accidentally reminded of?

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

5. What letter does Luzhin send to a stranger?

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

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

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

9. What books that his fiancee brings him in the sanatorium does Luzhin enjoy?

10. How does Luzhin falling unconscious affect his fiancee?

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