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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Luzhin hurt himself during the chess game with Turati?
(a) He lights a match and then forgets about it.
(b) He bangs his head against the wall.
(c) He kicks his foot against the table leg.
(d) He slams his cane down on his hand.

4. 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 beating his father at their first game of chess.
(b) A boy winning an adult chess tournament.
(c) A boy hiding in his room, reading chess magazines.
(d) A boy playing a simultaneous chess match.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At Luzhin's school, what teacher is out with a cold?

2. How is Luzhin greeted when he arrives at his aunt's house?

3. What habit of Luzhin's particularly annoys his future wife's mother?

4. How does Luzhin's future wife perceive him when she first meets him?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Luzhin respond to his fiancee's parents' home?

2. How does Luzhin's father die?

3. How does Luzhin's father compare his son to fictional characters?

4. How does Luzhin's father feel when he finally hears that his son is a prodigy?

5. Why does Luzhin's father decide that the boy he wants to write about, based on his son, will die young?

6. What does Luzhin ask his fiancee to do, on the second day she comes to his Berlin chess tournament?

7. How does Luzhin feel about his aunt?

8. Explain the nickname that the other boys give Luzhin at school.

9. How is Luzhin affected by spectators at his chess games?

10. How does Luzhin behave on walks with his future wife and her mother?

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