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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 are townspeople doing in the area where there are tennis courts in the summer, at the beginning of Chapter 13?
(a) Playing hockey.
(b) Having a snowball fight.
(c) Ice skating.
(d) Holding a concert.

2. When does Luzhin feel a strange emptiness, as he prepares for his wedding?
(a) When he suddenly catches a glimpse of himself in the mirror.
(b) All the time.
(c) When he is alone, in the early morning or late night.
(d) Whenever he is surrounded by people.

3. What is Luzhin like when his fiancee sits with him at the sanatorium?
(a) Luzhin is mostly talkative but distracted.
(b) Luzhin is mostly angry and agitated.
(c) Luzhin is mostly sullen and restless.
(d) Luzhin is mostly immobile and unresponsive.

4. What does Luzhin do when he gets into the cab with his new wife after the wedding reception?
(a) He begins talking incomprehensibly.
(b) He tries to kiss her.
(c) He falls asleep.
(d) He sits silently and sullenly.

5. How do Luzhin and his wife enter the ball?
(a) Arm in arm.
(b) Back to back.
(c) One following the other.
(d) From separate doors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luzhin's new landlady chide him for forgetting?

2. What fault does Luzhin's fiancee find with the material Luzhin selects?

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

4. What does Luzhin do before saying goodbye to his wife?

5. What room does Luzhin lock himself into?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Luzhin's future mother-in-law feel as the wedding approaches?

2. How does Luzhin read?

3. How does Luzhin kill himself?

4. What is Luzhin doing when Ivan knocks over the lamp?

5. What are Mrs. Luzhin's political opinions about the Soviet Union?

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

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

8. What does Luzhin see in the window of a stationery store that fascinates him?

9. How does Luzhin react to the parties of intellectuals that his wife entertains?

10. How does Luzhin feel at his wedding reception?

(see the answer keys)

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