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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Luzhin disappear to at the ball?
(a) An armchair by the staircase.
(b) A nook behind the decorated tree.
(c) A private room upstairs.
(d) The coat room closet.

3. How often do the Luzhins dine with Mrs. Luzhin's parents?
(a) Four times a week.
(b) Twice a week.
(c) Five times a week.
(d) Three times a week.

4. Where do the people at the chess tournament tell Luzhin to go?
(a) Home.
(b) To his hotel.
(c) Back to Russia.
(d) Out of Berlin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Luzhin hope to interest her husband in?

2. At the end of Chapter 8, where is Luzhin trying to go?

3. What is Luzhin's problem in school?

4. What excuse does Luzhin make for his sullenness and silence?

5. Who is Petrishchev, the man Luzhin winds up talking to at the ball?

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