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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the doctor and Luzhin's fiancee call his years of playing chess?
(a) Dead years.
(b) Lost years.
(c) Gray years.
(d) Mindful years.

2. What does Mrs. Luzhin criticize about her body, as she examines herself in the mirror on her wedding night?
(a) Her hips.
(b) Her neck.
(c) Her legs.
(d) Her belly.

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

4. What does Luzhin think vaguely of, but is unable to recall, while he is ill in the sanatorium?
(a) His first chess set.
(b) His mother's hard candies.
(c) His grandfather's chess magazines.
(d) The smell of his aunt's perfume.

5. Who does Luzhin's future wife make him think of, when he first meets him?
(a) His mother.
(b) A girl at his school.
(c) A prostitute.
(d) His aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luzhin's mother always have beside her, after she injures herself?

2. When Luzhin's father goes to write a book about a boy like his son, what is the first scene that occurs to him?

3. What injury does Luzhin's mother incur, one July day?

4. 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?

5. How does Luzhin's mother-in-law speak to him after the wedding?

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