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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During their walk the morning after the party, what does Luzhin's father suggest he take up?
(a) Chess.
(b) Music.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Drawing.

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

3. Where is the first place Mrs. Luzhin suggests they travel?
(a) To the Carribean.
(b) To America.
(c) To the French Riviera.
(d) To Venice, Italy.

4. After Luzhin disappears, what does Petrishchev think?
(a) Petrishchev thinks he's offended Luzhin.
(b) Petrishchev thinks Luzhin has grown rude in his old age.
(c) Petrishchev thinks he imagined Luzhin the whole time.
(d) Petrishchev thinks he's mistaken Luzhin for someone else.

5. What happens when Luzhin goes to visit his father's grave after his death?
(a) Luzhin cries over his father's gravestone.
(b) Luzhin can't find the gravestone.
(c) Luzhin places flowers on the gravestone and feels bitter anger.
(d) Luzhin can't garner emotion for his father's death, but lays flowers on the gravestone.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mrs. Luzhin's intellectual guests gather at the tea table, what is the immediate response?

2. What year does Luzhin's father begin to write a novel whose main character is a chess-playing boy like his son?

3. What does Luzhin feel like, when he moves into his new apartment after getting out of the hospital?

4. Why have Luzhin's parents put off telling him that they've enrolled him in a school?

5. Whose chess set does Luzhin get interested in?

(see the answer key)

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