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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 happens when Luzhin goes to visit his father's grave after his death?
(a) Luzhin places flowers on the gravestone and feels bitter anger.
(b) Luzhin can't garner emotion for his father's death, but lays flowers on the gravestone.
(c) Luzhin can't find the gravestone.
(d) Luzhin cries over his father's gravestone.

2. Whose chess set does Luzhin get interested in?
(a) A party guest's.
(b) His father's.
(c) His teacher's.
(d) His mother's.

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

4. Who is more drunk, Kurt or Gunther?
(a) Both are equally drunk.
(b) Kurt.
(c) Gunther.
(d) Neither is drunk.

5. Who does Luzhin's future wife make him think of, when he first meets him?
(a) A prostitute.
(b) His aunt.
(c) A girl at his school.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Luzhin meets his future wife's mother, what is the mother's opinion of him?

2. What important historical events does Luzhin's father feel inhibited by having to include in every novel?

3. How many games does it take before Luzhin's opponent begins having difficulty beating him?

4. What does Luzhin drop that his future wife picks up and returns to him?

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

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