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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Luzhin like when his fiancee sits with him at the sanatorium?
(a) Luzhin is mostly immobile and unresponsive.
(b) Luzhin is mostly talkative but distracted.
(c) Luzhin is mostly angry and agitated.
(d) Luzhin is mostly sullen and restless.

2. At the wedding reception, how much champagne does Luzhin drink?
(a) Two glasses.
(b) None.
(c) Six glasses.
(d) Four glasses.

3. When he wakes in the hospital, what does Luzhin ask a nurse?
(a) Who are you?
(b) Where am I?
(c) What time is it?
(d) What day is it?

4. Where does Luzhin disappear to at the ball?
(a) The coat room closet.
(b) A nook behind the decorated tree.
(c) A private room upstairs.
(d) An armchair by the staircase.

5. Who is taken off in the taxi cab?
(a) Luzhin.
(b) Karl.
(c) Kurt.
(d) Gunther.

6. What does Luzhin do before saying goodbye to his wife?
(a) He bathes and shaves.
(b) He takes off his shoes.
(c) He cleans out his pockets.
(d) He puts on his hat, scarf, and overcoat.

7. What causes Mrs. Luzhin to be away from her husband a good deal?
(a) She is planning their proposed trip.
(b) She is helping a friend shop.
(c) She is volunteering at her church.
(d) She is helping her sick mother.

8. What does Luzhin do when he gets into the cab with his new wife after the wedding reception?
(a) He falls asleep.
(b) He tries to kiss her.
(c) He sits silently and sullenly.
(d) He begins talking incomprehensibly.

9. What does Luzhin's fiancee think of when she walks with him in the garden of the sanatorium?
(a) A painting in her mother's home.
(b) A sculpture she saw in a museum.
(c) A book she read as a child.
(d) A poem she loves.

10. What item does Luzhin find in the lining of his pocket?
(a) A ring.
(b) A notebook.
(c) A wooden pawn.
(d) A chess board.

11. When Mrs. Luzhin's intellectual guests gather at the tea table, what is the immediate response?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Silence.
(c) A cacophony of talking.
(d) A clatter of dishes and teacups.

12. What does Luzhin's new landlady chide him for forgetting?
(a) He forgets to lock his room when he leaves.
(b) He forgets to take in the newspaper and milk.
(c) He forgets to turn out the light and close his door.
(d) He forgets to pay his rent.

13. What happened to the student that Mrs. Luzhkin's visitor used to be in love with?
(a) He fled Russia for the Middle East.
(b) He was killed in World War I.
(c) He was shot by communists.
(d) He was drowned in an accident.

14. Who is Petrishchev, the man Luzhin winds up talking to at the ball?
(a) A Parisian banker who was Luzhin's former chess opponent.
(b) An Egyptian hotel clerk who has Luzhin's aunt's godchild.
(c) A Brazilian plantation worker who was Luzhin's former classmate.
(d) A Canadian store owner who knew Mrs. Luzhin as a girl.

15. How does Luzhin's mother-in-law speak to him after the wedding?
(a) She speaks hardly at all, ignoring him.
(b) She speaks constantly but condescendingly, never referring to her new son-in-law.
(c) She speaks formally and distantly, using the formal form of "you."
(d) She speaks in a friendly way, using the familiar form of "you."

Short Answer Questions

1. On what floor is the apartment Luzhin's in-laws have rented for the newlyweds?

2. What room does Luzhin lock himself into?

3. What kinds of articles does Mrs. Luzhin have her husband read to her?

4. How do Luzhin and his wife enter the ball?

5. What relative of Luzhin does Mrs. Luzhin's visitor know?

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