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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What present does Luzhin's fiancee bring to him at his hotel room?
(a) A box of chocolates.
(b) A cigarette holder.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Cufflinks.

2. What does Luzhin's fiancee's mother tell him that he should do, when he comes to her home early and only she is there?
(a) Take a bath.
(b) Win the tournament.
(c) Leave Berlin.
(d) Quit playing chess.

3. What habit of Luzhin's particularly annoys his future wife's mother?
(a) He talks about himself in the third person.
(b) He looks at her shoes when he talks.
(c) He talks into his hat.
(d) He sits with his back to her.

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

5. How old is Luzhin when he returns to the German resort where he went to with his father when recovering from his illness?
(a) In his forties.
(b) In his fifties.
(c) In his thirties.
(d) In his twenties.

6. What does the doctor give to Luzhin?
(a) A chess timer.
(b) A set of chess pieces.
(c) A chess board.
(d) A chess handbook.

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

8. When Luzhin's father goes to write a book about a boy like his son, what is the first scene that occurs to him?
(a) A boy playing a simultaneous chess match.
(b) A boy winning an adult chess tournament.
(c) A boy hiding in his room, reading chess magazines.
(d) A boy beating his father at their first game of chess.

9. What anniversary of Luzhin's grandfather's death is it at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) The second.
(b) The fifth.
(c) The first.
(d) The tenth.

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

11. What business does Valentinov go into after leaving Luzhin?
(a) The theater.
(b) The movie business.
(c) The art business.
(d) The music business.

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

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

14. Why is Luzhin afraid of at school?
(a) That someone else will be better than him at chess.
(b) That bullies will beat him up.
(c) That he will not be able to pass his classes.
(d) That others will find out his chess ability and make fun of him.

15. What does Luzhin's father suspect his son of looking for in illustrated magazines?
(a) Articles about his father.
(b) Naked women.
(c) Pictures of far-off lands.
(d) Chess puzzles.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Luzhin usually travel to school?

3. What excuse does Luzhin give the first day he skips school?

4. At the beginning of the novel, what does the main character associate the name "Luzhin" with?

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

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