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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Luzhin stay at his aunt's?
(a) Two hours.
(b) Three hours.
(c) Four hours.
(d) One hour.

2. What does Luzhin drop that his future wife picks up and returns to him?
(a) A pocket watch.
(b) A handkerchief.
(c) A wallet.
(d) A ring.

3. Who interrupts the chess game?
(a) The substitute teacher.
(b) A new student.
(c) The class bully.
(d) The janitor.

4. What does Luzhin like most at his birthday party?
(a) The guests.
(b) The cake.
(c) The presents.
(d) The magician.

5. What injury does Luzhin's mother incur, one July day?
(a) She sprains her back.
(b) Her arm is pulled out of the socket.
(c) She sprains her foot.
(d) She breaks her wrist.

6. In Luzhin's championship game against Turati, how does Turati open the game?
(a) With his usual, successful move.
(b) With an ordinary, banal move.
(c) With a laughingly stupid move.
(d) With a startlingly aggressive, unfamiliar move.

7. How does Luzhin feel the morning after his father's party?
(a) Luzhin is exhausted.
(b) Luzhin is angry.
(c) Luzhin is excited.
(d) Luzhin is bored.

8. What does Luzhin's mother always have beside her, after she injures herself?
(a) A bowl of hard candies.
(b) A bowl of strawberries.
(c) A bowl of caramels.
(d) A bowl of chocolates.

9. What does Luzhin do when he goes up to his room after he's met his future wife's mother?
(a) He takes a nap.
(b) He works on his chess game.
(c) He eats a meal.
(d) He writes a letter to his future wife.

10. What did Luzhin place in the German chess tournament in his youth?
(a) Third.
(b) Second.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Fifth.

11. Where does Luzhin tell his father he learned to play chess?
(a) From a friend's father.
(b) In the park.
(c) From his aunt.
(d) At school.

12. At the beginning of the novel, what does the main character associate the name "Luzhin" with?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) Himself.
(d) Nothing.

13. Who sketches Luzhin and Turati at the chess tournament in Berlin?
(a) A famous sculpter.
(b) A local portrait painter.
(c) Luzhin's fiancee.
(d) A newspaper sketch artist.

14. What do Luzhin and his father go to gather under the fir trees?
(a) White daisies.
(b) Wild red roses.
(c) Red bolete mushrooms.
(d) Wild mint leaves.

15. When does Luzhin's father return after going into town during the summer?
(a) Late, at midnight.
(b) On time, at 7:00.
(c) Early, at 5:00.
(d) Late, at 10:00.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luzhin's future wife's mother think of his profession as a chess champion?

2. Where is Luzhin's father when the idea for a novel about a boy like his son hits him?

3. What habit of Luzhin's particularly annoys his future wife's mother?

4. During the beginning of the chess game with Turati, who seems to be winning?

5. What title does Luzhin's father give his imagined novella about a boy like his son?

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