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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Luzhin feel like, when he moves into his new apartment after getting out of the hospital?
(a) Like he did whenever he started a new chess game.
(b) Like he did when moving from country to town as a child.
(c) Like he did whenever moving into a new hotel room.
(d) Like he did when he started school as a boy.

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

5. How long is Luzhin sick after running away?
(a) Three days.
(b) A day.
(c) A week.
(d) Two weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Luzhin goes to visit his father's grave after his death?

2. Who interrupts Luzhin's first chess lesson?

3. Where does Mrs. Luzhin take her husband that he's never been before?

4. Where is the first place Mrs. Luzhin suggests they travel?

5. What does Luzhin's future father-in-law talk to him about privately before his wedding?

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