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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Luzhin's future wife perceive him when she first meets him?
(a) As a bitter, unkind old man.
(b) As a sad, suffering romantic.
(c) As an eccentric artist.
(d) As an uncouth, unworthy slob.

2. How does Luzhin feel the morning after his father's party?
(a) Luzhin is bored.
(b) Luzhin is exhausted.
(c) Luzhin is angry.
(d) Luzhin is excited.

3. What business does Valentinov go into after leaving Luzhin?
(a) The movie business.
(b) The art business.
(c) The music business.
(d) The theater.

4. What injury does Luzhin's mother incur, one July day?
(a) She sprains her back.
(b) Her arm is pulled out of the socket.
(c) She sprains her foot.
(d) She breaks her wrist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Luzhin's first wife's mother find out Luzhin wants to marry her daughter?

2. What painting does Luzhin take note of in his fiancee's parents' home?

3. How does Luzhin usually travel to school?

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

5. What year does Luzhin's father begin to write a novel whose main character is a chess-playing boy like his son?

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