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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Luzhin and his father go to gather under the fir trees?
(a) White daisies.
(b) Wild mint leaves.
(c) Red bolete mushrooms.
(d) Wild red roses.

2. What question does Luzhin's fiancee's father ask Luzhin?
(a) Whether he plays other games besides chess.
(b) Whether there's a move in chess that always lets you win.
(c) Whether he can really make a living playing chess.
(d) Whether chess isn't a rather childish game.

3. In Luzhin's championship game against Turati, how does Turati open the game?
(a) With a startlingly aggressive, unfamiliar move.
(b) With his usual, successful move.
(c) With an ordinary, banal move.
(d) With a laughingly stupid move.

4. What does Luzhin's fiancee think of when she walks with him in the garden of the sanatorium?
(a) A poem she loves.
(b) A book she read as a child.
(c) A sculpture she saw in a museum.
(d) A painting in her mother's home.

5. At the end of Chapter 8, where is Luzhin trying to go?
(a) To the manor house he remembers from his youth.
(b) To his hotel.
(c) To his fiancee's parents' house.
(d) To the place he stayed with his father in Germany as a boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Luzhin's future wife perceive him when she first meets him?

2. Who begins to teach Luzhin chess?

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

4. During the beginning of the chess game with Turati, who seems to be winning?

5. What author does Luzhin's fiancee tell her mother that Luzhin has never read?

(see the answer key)

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