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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. What habit of Luzhin's particularly annoys his future wife's mother?
(a) He looks at her shoes when he talks.
(b) He talks about himself in the third person.
(c) He talks into his hat.
(d) He sits with his back to her.

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

3. What does Luzhin's fiancee threaten that she will do, if he starts thinking about chess?
(a) Not marry him.
(b) Stop loving him.
(c) Kill herself.
(d) Beat him.

4. What did Luzhin do the previous Christmas with the chocolates meant for his aunt?
(a) He carefully wrapped each chocolate and arranged them in the box for her.
(b) He kept the chocolates and gave her a different preset.
(c) He put the chocolates in a new box to give to her.
(d) He ate half and rearranged the rest to hide the missing ones.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the woman Luzhin meets in Germany (his future wife) think of his father?

2. Who is more drunk, Kurt or Gunther?

3. When does Luzhin's father return after going into town during the summer?

4. Where does Luzhin find himself, as he tries to walk toward where he wants to go?

5. What is Luzhin's fiancee eating when her parents tackle her about giving up Luzhin at the beginning of Chapter 10?

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