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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 relative of Luzhin does Mrs. Luzhin's visitor know?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His aunt.
(d) His cousin.

2. What children does Mrs. Luzhin's visitor have?
(a) A little boy and a little girl.
(b) Two little girls.
(c) A little boy.
(d) A little girl.

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

4. What does Mrs. Luzhin show her husband, in a painting of the Last Supper?
(a) Trees in the background.
(b) Dogs under the table.
(c) The symmetry of the walls.
(d) Flowers in one of the apostle's hands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Luzhin's fiancee eating when her parents tackle her about giving up Luzhin at the beginning of Chapter 10?

2. What color does Luzhin choose for his suit?

3. What does Valentinov do in the car, as he drives Luzhin to his club?

4. Who is taken off in the taxi cab?

5. When was the last time Luzhin had been in church before his wedding?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Luzhin's psychiatrist say about the possibility of him marrying?

2. What does Luzhin's psychiatrist ask him about?

3. How does Luzhin falling unconscious affect his fiancee?

4. What memory of his father does Luzhin recall when he stops to buy fruit?

5. What does Luzhin think is the point of the "game" being played against him?

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

7. What letter does Luzhin send to a stranger?

8. Why doesn't Luzhin's fiancee ask him about his tuxedo?

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

10. How does Luzhin kill himself?

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