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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. During their walk the morning after the party, what does Luzhin's father suggest he take up?
(a) Music.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Chess.
(d) Drawing.

2. What year does Luzhin's father begin to write a novel whose main character is a chess-playing boy like his son?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1958.

3. What does Luzhin do when he goes up to his room after he's met his future wife's mother?
(a) He takes a nap.
(b) He works on his chess game.
(c) He writes a letter to his future wife.
(d) He eats a meal.

4. At the end of Chapter 8, where is Luzhin trying to go?
(a) To his hotel.
(b) To the place he stayed with his father in Germany as a boy.
(c) To the manor house he remembers from his youth.
(d) To his fiancee's parents' house.

5. What does Luzhin think vaguely of, but is unable to recall, while he is ill in the sanatorium?
(a) His grandfather's chess magazines.
(b) His first chess set.
(c) His mother's hard candies.
(d) The smell of his aunt's perfume.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose chess set does Luzhin get interested in?

3. When Luzhin's fiancee's father meets Luzhin, what does he offer the chess champion?

4. Where does Luzhin's father send Luzhin, after the chess lesson is interrupted?

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

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