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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 mother's hard candies.
(c) His first chess set.
(d) His grandfather's chess magazines.

2. Whose chess set does Luzhin get interested in?
(a) A party guest's.
(b) His father's.
(c) His teacher's.
(d) His mother's.

3. When he wakes in the hospital, what does Luzhin ask a nurse?
(a) What time is it?
(b) Where am I?
(c) What day is it?
(d) Who are you?

4. How does Luzhin's mother-in-law speak to him after the wedding?
(a) She speaks formally and distantly, using the formal form of "you."
(b) She speaks constantly but condescendingly, never referring to her new son-in-law.
(c) She speaks in a friendly way, using the familiar form of "you."
(d) She speaks hardly at all, ignoring him.

5. What did Luzhin place in the German chess tournament in his youth?
(a) Second.
(b) Third.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Fifth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Luzhin's grades at school?

2. What is Luzhin doing when he notices two other students taking out a chess set?

3. On what floor is the apartment Luzhin's in-laws have rented for the newlyweds?

4. Where does Luzhin find himself, as he tries to walk toward where he wants to go?

5. Why does Mrs. Luzhin avoid mentioning large cities when talking of traveling?

(see the answer key)

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