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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What children does Mrs. Luzhin's visitor have?
(a) Two little girls.
(b) A little girl.
(c) A little boy.
(d) A little boy and a little girl.

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

3. In Luzhin's championship game against Turati, how does Turati open the game?
(a) With a startlingly aggressive, unfamiliar move.
(b) With a laughingly stupid move.
(c) With his usual, successful move.
(d) With an ordinary, banal move.

4. What does Luzhin's future wife's mother think of his profession as a chess champion?
(a) She thinks it is romantic but unwise.
(b) She thinks it is hysterically amusing.
(c) She thinks it is trivial and ridiculous.
(d) She thinks it is exciting but low-paying.

5. Where do the people at the chess tournament tell Luzhin to go?
(a) To his hotel.
(b) Out of Berlin.
(c) Home.
(d) Back to Russia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After his wife's old friend from Russia visits, how does Luzhin begin seeing his life?

3. What excuse does Luzhin give the first day he skips school?

4. Luzhin spectacularly wins a chess game in Berlin after sacrificing what three pieces in a row?

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

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