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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 future mother-in-law's prime objection to her daughter marrying Luzhin?
(a) She thinks her daughter doesn't love him.
(b) She thinks Luzhin is uncouth.
(c) She thinks Luzhin is from a bad family.
(d) She is afraid Luzhin is mentally unstable.

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

3. Why doesn't Luzhin hide his chess set?
(a) He gets distracted by his drawing and forgets about it.
(b) He decides it's best to keep it in the open.
(c) He loses it before he can hide it.
(d) He can't find a place for it.

4. What does Mrs. Luzhin wear on her wedding night?
(a) Pajamas.
(b) A pink silk robe.
(c) Her husband's shirt.
(d) A white negligee.

5. What is the Luzhins' maid particularly bat at?
(a) Taking phone calls.
(b) Making the beds.
(c) Dusting.
(d) Baking bread.

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

7. Who is more drunk, Kurt or Gunther?
(a) Both are equally drunk.
(b) Neither is drunk.
(c) Kurt.
(d) Gunther.

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

9. What does Mrs. Luzhin show her husband, in a painting of the Last Supper?
(a) The symmetry of the walls.
(b) Dogs under the table.
(c) Trees in the background.
(d) Flowers in one of the apostle's hands.

10. What is the house number of Luzhin's father's former house?
(a) Thirty-one D.
(b) Thirty-three C.
(c) Thirty-five A.
(d) Thirty-seven B.

11. What does Mrs. Luzhin hope to interest her husband in?
(a) Architecture.
(b) History.
(c) Politics.
(d) Mathematics.

12. After failing to hide the chess set, what does Luzhin decide to do with it?
(a) Put it in the kitchen cupboard.
(b) Keep it on the bedroom floor.
(c) Get rid of it.
(d) Display it in the study.

13. What is the one thing Luzhin finds wrong with the old jacket he begs his wife to let him keep?
(a) A mark on the collar.
(b) A hole in the pocket.
(c) A rip in the lapel.
(d) A missing button.

14. What does Luzhin remember about his French governess?
(a) He remembers her sitting in the kitchen, laughing with the cook.
(b) He remembers her riding the elevator instead of taking the stairs.
(c) He remembers her stealing cloth from his mother's sewing room.
(d) He remembers her cracking him over the knuckles with a ruler.

15. When Luzhin finally comes to his bedroom on his wedding night, where does his wife go?
(a) To the bed.
(b) To take a bath.
(c) To the closet.
(d) To the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mrs. Luzhin want her husband to visit?

2. After Luzhin disappears, what does Petrishchev think?

3. At the wedding reception, how much champagne does Luzhin drink?

4. What does Luzhin's future father-in-law talk to him about privately before his wedding?

5. Where does Luzhin disappear to at the ball?

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