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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) The daughter tells her mother.
(b) The mother overhears Luzhin and the daughter talking.
(c) The mother is told by a stranger at the hotel.
(d) Luzhin asks the mother for her daughter's hand.

2. Where are Luzhin and his father when Archduke Ferdinand is killed, starting World War I?
(a) In Switzerland.
(b) In France.
(c) In Germany.
(d) In Russia.

3. What is Luzhin's father's profession?
(a) Merchant.
(b) Writer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Artist.

4. What does Luzhin listen to as he lies awake at night?
(a) The chimes of church bells outside.
(b) The creakig of the attic floor.
(c) The ticking of a clock.
(d) The sounds of dogs in the night.

5. Whose chess set does Luzhin get interested in?
(a) His mother's.
(b) His teacher's.
(c) His father's.
(d) A party guest's.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Luzhin comes back to his family's house, where in the house does he hide?

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

3. During their walk the morning after the party, what does Luzhin's father suggest he take up?

4. Who is depicted atop the bookcase in the new apartment?

5. At the end of Luzhin's first day of play against Turati, what does Luzhin feel unable to do?

(see the answer key)

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