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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Luzhin feel like, when he moves into his new apartment after getting out of the hospital?
(a) Like he did whenever he started a new chess game.
(b) Like he did when moving from country to town as a child.
(c) Like he did whenever moving into a new hotel room.
(d) Like he did when he started school as a boy.

2. What does Luzhin teach himself, after visiting his father-in-law's office?
(a) How to manage accounting books.
(b) How to use a mimeograph machine.
(c) The German tax code.
(d) How to type.

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

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

5. How does Luzhin think fellow students feel about him?
(a) He thinks they pity him.
(b) He thinks they're jealous of him.
(c) He thinks they hate him.
(d) He thinks they admire him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luzhin's fiancee's mother tell him that he should do, when he comes to her home early and only she is there?

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

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

4. What happens when Luzhin goes to visit his father's grave after his death?

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

(see the answer key)

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