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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 daughter tells her mother.
(c) The mother is told by a stranger at the hotel.
(d) The mother overhears Luzhin and the daughter talking.

2. Who do the drunk men find waiting up by a lighted window at Luzhin's fiancee's parents' house?
(a) Luzhin's fiancee.
(b) Luzhin's future mother-in-law.
(c) A servant.
(d) Luzhin's future father-in-law.

3. How is Luzhin greeted when he arrives at his aunt's house?
(a) Her maid tells him his aunt is out and slams the door.
(b) Her maid tells him his aunt is still asleep and to wait.
(c) His aunt is outside the house and greets him happily.
(d) His aunt slams the door in his face.

4. At the wedding reception, how much champagne does Luzhin drink?
(a) Four glasses.
(b) Two glasses.
(c) None.
(d) Six glasses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Luzhin's fiancee's father ask Luzhin?

2. Where does Luzhin find himself, as he tries to walk toward where he wants to go?

3. What does Luzhin do when he goes up to his room after he's met his future wife's mother?

4. What is Luzhin's father's profession?

5. When Luzhin asks the doctor who he is, what is the psychiatrist's reply?

(see the answer key)

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