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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose telephone call does Luzhin eavesdrop on during the party?
(a) An architect.
(b) A waiter.
(c) An actor.
(d) A violinist.

2. How do Luzhin and his wife enter the ball?
(a) Back to back.
(b) From separate doors.
(c) One following the other.
(d) Arm in arm.

3. How does Mrs. Luzhin feel when her visitor finally leaves Berlin?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Angry.
(c) Sad.
(d) Worried.

4. What does Luzhin's future father-in-law talk to him about privately before his wedding?
(a) Paying him back the money Luzhin owes for his upkeep.
(b) Luzhin's future mother-in-law's feelings about Luzhin.
(c) Treating Luzhin's future wife kindly.
(d) Getting Luzhin a job.

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 the woman Luzhin meets in Germany (his future wife) think of his father?

2. Why have Luzhin's parents put off telling him that they've enrolled him in a school?

3. Why is Luzhin afraid of at school?

4. At the beginning of the novel, what does the main character associate the name "Luzhin" with?

5. Who begins to teach Luzhin chess?

(see the answer key)

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