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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Luzhin hurt himself during the chess game with Turati?
(a) He bangs his head against the wall.
(b) He slams his cane down on his hand.
(c) He kicks his foot against the table leg.
(d) He lights a match and then forgets about it.

2. When Luzhin runs away from home, what does he learn from his aunt?
(a) That she is marrying his former chess partner.
(b) That his former chess partner has died.
(c) That his former chess partner has left the country.
(d) That she has been having an affair with Luzhin's father.

3. What does Luzhin's future wife's mother think of his profession as a chess champion?
(a) She thinks it is romantic but unwise.
(b) She thinks it is hysterically amusing.
(c) She thinks it is exciting but low-paying.
(d) She thinks it is trivial and ridiculous.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luzhin's father suspect his son of looking for in illustrated magazines?

2. Where does Luzhin tell his father he learned to play chess?

3. Where does Mrs. Luzhin take her husband that he's never been before?

4. What did Luzhin place in the German chess tournament in his youth?

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

(see the answer key)

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