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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Three days before Luzhin's departure, when he is walking with his future wife and her mother, what does the mother ask her daughter to run back and get for her?
(a) Something to read.
(b) A glass of water.
(c) A handkerchief.
(d) A shawl.

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

3. Where does Luzhin sit during recess?
(a) His desk.
(b) The woodpile.
(c) The bathroom.
(d) The swing.

4. How does Luzhin's future wife perceive him when she first meets him?
(a) As a bitter, unkind old man.
(b) As an uncouth, unworthy slob.
(c) As a sad, suffering romantic.
(d) As an eccentric artist.

5. What does Luzhin's future wife's mother say she represents?
(a) The bohemian creative streak of their family.
(b) The intelligencia and avante-garde literary world.
(c) The otherworldly and the spiritual.
(d) The unromantic, logical, scientific world of the new era.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Luzhin's championship game against Turati, how does Turati open the game?

2. How does Luzhin usually travel to school?

3. Who begins to teach Luzhin chess?

4. What anniversary of Luzhin's grandfather's death is it at the beginning of Chapter 3?

5. What does Luzhin's father suspect his son of looking for in illustrated magazines?

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