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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Luzhin's first wife's mother find out Luzhin wants to marry her daughter?
(a) Luzhin asks the mother for her daughter's hand.
(b) The mother is told by a stranger at the hotel.
(c) The mother overhears Luzhin and the daughter talking.
(d) The daughter tells her mother.

4. How many games does it take before Luzhin's opponent begins having difficulty beating him?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Twenty.

5. At the end of Luzhin's first day of play against Turati, what does Luzhin feel unable to do?
(a) Stay in the chess tournament room.
(b) Get up from his seat.
(c) Walk.
(d) Stay awake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sketches Luzhin and Turati at the chess tournament in Berlin?

2. After Luzhin disappears, what does Petrishchev think?

3. What does Luzhin's mother always have beside her, after she injures herself?

4. Where do the people at the chess tournament tell Luzhin to go?

5. How does Luzhin hurt himself during the chess game with Turati?

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