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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Luzhin's problem in school?
(a) Understanding lessons.
(b) Social interaction.
(c) Math.
(d) Playing too much.

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

3. What is Luzhin's response to his father, when his father comes to visit him at school?
(a) Luzhin is happy and wants his father to stay.
(b) Luzhin shows little interest in his father.
(c) Luzhin talks a mile a minute to his father.
(d) Luzhin cries and yells at his father.

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

5. How does Luzhin usually travel to school?
(a) In a cab.
(b) On foot.
(c) With his father.
(d) On a horse.

6. When Luzhin's family arrives in the city, where does Luzhin run off to?
(a) The train station.
(b) A museum.
(c) A library.
(d) Nearby woods.

7. Who begins to teach Luzhin chess?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) His tutor.
(d) His aunt.

8. Who does Luzhin's father invite to Luzhin's birthday?
(a) Luzhin's cousins, aunts, and uncles.
(b) Only his own friends.
(c) A neighbor girl.
(d) A few of Luzhin's classmates.

9. Where does Luzhin's father send Luzhin, after the chess lesson is interrupted?
(a) School.
(b) Luzhin's room.
(c) The attic.
(d) The park.

10. What painting does Luzhin take note of in his fiancee's parents' home?
(a) A painting of the buildings of Moscow.
(b) A painting of a Russian girl eating an apple.
(c) A painting of a horse and carriage in winter.
(d) A painting of two dogs on a sofa.

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

12. What question does Luzhin's fiancee's father ask Luzhin?
(a) Whether chess isn't a rather childish game.
(b) Whether he can really make a living playing chess.
(c) Whether there's a move in chess that always lets you win.
(d) Whether he plays other games besides chess.

13. On the first game that Luzhin's opponent doesn't beat him, what is the result?
(a) A draw.
(b) Luzhin wins by virtue of his grown skill.
(c) His opponent lets Luzhin win.
(d) The game is never finished.

14. What nickname do the other boys call Luzhin?
(a) Morris.
(b) Clutz.
(c) Tony.
(d) Lucky.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the woman Luzhin meets in Germany (his future wife) think of his father?

2. What does Luzhin do with the chess set he has been carrying with him, after he is able to play openly with his father?

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

4. At the end of Chapter 8, where is Luzhin trying to go?

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

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