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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Luzhin stay at his aunt's?
(a) One hour.
(b) Three hours.
(c) Four hours.
(d) Two hours.

2. 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 cries over his father's gravestone.
(c) Luzhin can't find the gravestone.
(d) Luzhin can't garner emotion for his father's death, but lays flowers on the gravestone.

3. Where are Luzhin and his father when Archduke Ferdinand is killed, starting World War I?
(a) In France.
(b) In Germany.
(c) In Russia.
(d) In Switzerland.

4. What did Luzhin place in the German chess tournament in his youth?
(a) Second.
(b) Fifth.
(c) Third.
(d) Fourth.

5. What injury does Luzhin's mother incur, one July day?
(a) She breaks her wrist.
(b) Her arm is pulled out of the socket.
(c) She sprains her back.
(d) She sprains her foot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What title does Luzhin's father give his imagined novella about a boy like his son?

2. How is Luzhin greeted when he arrives at his aunt's house?

3. What does Luzhin's future wife's mother say she represents?

4. What kind of puzzles does Luzhin enjoy doing?

5. What is Luzhin's response to his father, when his father comes to visit him at school?

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