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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Luzhin like when his fiancee sits with him at the sanatorium?
(a) Luzhin is mostly sullen and restless.
(b) Luzhin is mostly angry and agitated.
(c) Luzhin is mostly immobile and unresponsive.
(d) Luzhin is mostly talkative but distracted.

2. How does Luzhin hurt himself during the chess game with Turati?
(a) He lights a match and then forgets about it.
(b) He slams his cane down on his hand.
(c) He bangs his head against the wall.
(d) He kicks his foot against the table leg.

3. At the end of Luzhin's first day of play against Turati, what does Luzhin feel unable to do?
(a) Walk.
(b) Get up from his seat.
(c) Stay in the chess tournament room.
(d) Stay awake.

4. How does Luzhin's first wife's mother find out Luzhin wants to marry her daughter?
(a) The mother overhears Luzhin and the daughter talking.
(b) The daughter tells her mother.
(c) Luzhin asks the mother for her daughter's hand.
(d) The mother is told by a stranger at the hotel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What habit of Luzhin's particularly annoys his future wife's mother?

2. How does Luzhin usually travel to school?

3. What does Luzhin's new landlady chide him for forgetting?

4. Who does Luzhin play chess with at his aunt's house?

5. On what floor is the apartment Luzhin's in-laws have rented for the newlyweds?

(see the answer key)

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