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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is taken off in the taxi cab?
(a) Karl.
(b) Luzhin.
(c) Kurt.
(d) Gunther.

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

3. How do Luzhin and his wife enter the ball?
(a) Arm in arm.
(b) One following the other.
(c) Back to back.
(d) From separate doors.

4. When Luzhin's fiancee's father meets Luzhin, what does he offer the chess champion?
(a) A glass of wine.
(b) A cigarette.
(c) A snack.
(d) A glass of water.

5. What fault does Luzhin's fiancee find with the material Luzhin selects?
(a) She finds its color will run.
(b) She finds it too dark.
(c) She finds it creases easily.
(d) She finds it too scratchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Luzhin show her husband, in a painting of the Last Supper?

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

3. What important historical events does Luzhin's father feel inhibited by having to include in every novel?

4. Who has been educating Luzhin at home, before his enrollment in school?

5. What is Luzhin given by the coat room when he turns in his jacket at the ball?

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