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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. What business does Valentinov go into after leaving Luzhin?
(a) The art business.
(b) The theater.
(c) The music business.
(d) The movie business.

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

3. When Luzhin's father goes to write a book about a boy like his son, what is the first scene that occurs to him?
(a) A boy playing a simultaneous chess match.
(b) A boy hiding in his room, reading chess magazines.
(c) A boy winning an adult chess tournament.
(d) A boy beating his father at their first game of chess.

4. What does the doctor give to Luzhin?
(a) A chess board.
(b) A set of chess pieces.
(c) A chess timer.
(d) A chess handbook.

5. Where does Luzhin tell his father he learned to play chess?
(a) From his aunt.
(b) At school.
(c) In the park.
(d) From a friend's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Luzhin's grades at school?

2. Where is Luzhin's father when the idea for a novel about a boy like his son hits him?

3. Where does Luzhin hide during the party?

4. What does Luzhin like most at his birthday party?

5. Whose telephone call does Luzhin eavesdrop on during the party?

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