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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Luzhin's future wife's mother say she represents?
(a) The bohemian creative streak of their family.
(b) The otherworldly and the spiritual.
(c) The unromantic, logical, scientific world of the new era.
(d) The intelligencia and avante-garde literary world.

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

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

4. 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 others will find out his chess ability and make fun of him.
(d) That he will not be able to pass his classes.

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

6. Where does Luzhin hide during the party?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) His father's office.
(c) A closet.
(d) The attic.

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

8. At the end of Chapter 8, where is Luzhin trying to go?
(a) To the place he stayed with his father in Germany as a boy.
(b) To his hotel.
(c) To the manor house he remembers from his youth.
(d) To his fiancee's parents' house.

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

10. What important historical events does Luzhin's father feel inhibited by having to include in every novel?
(a) World War I and World War II.
(b) World War I and the Great Depression.
(c) World War I and the Armenian genocide.
(d) World War I and the Russian revolution.

11. What does Luzhin do with the chess set he has been carrying with him, after he is able to play openly with his father?
(a) He sells it.
(b) He gives it away.
(c) He hides it in his bed.
(d) He buries it.

12. What city does the family live in?
(a) Novosibirsk.
(b) Stalingrad.
(c) Moscow.
(d) St. Petersberg.

13. What year does Luzhin's father begin to write a novel whose main character is a chess-playing boy like his son?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1928.

14. Who interrupts Luzhin's first chess lesson?
(a) His mother.
(b) His tutor.
(c) His father.
(d) His aunt.

15. How long is Luzhin sick after running away?
(a) A week.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Three days.
(d) A day.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose telephone call does Luzhin eavesdrop on during the party?

3. When Luzhin's family arrives in the city, where does Luzhin run off to?

4. Where do the people at the chess tournament tell Luzhin to go?

5. Where does Luzhin tell his father he learned to play chess?

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