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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. At Luzhin's school, what teacher is out with a cold?
(a) The math teacher.
(b) The science teacher.
(c) The English teacher.
(d) The geography teacher.

2. Who has been educating Luzhin at home, before his enrollment in school?
(a) A governess.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) No one.

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

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

5. What does Luzhin's future wife hear that he does in his room late at night?
(a) Sit in front of an empty chess board.
(b) Create and write down chess puzzles.
(c) Write his memoirs.
(d) Play a famous chess game over and over with a chess set.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many games does it take before Luzhin's opponent begins having difficulty beating him?

2. Where does Luzhin hide during the party?

3. What title does Luzhin's father give his imagined novella about a boy like his son?

4. What kind of party does Luzhin's father give in honor of Luzhin's grandfather?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Luzhin senior's wife react when he has to go to town for the day?

3. What ability does Luzhin compare his ability to read chess notation with?

4. How does Luzhin's future wife feel about introducing him to her family?

5. Before playing with his son, how does Luzhin's father consider his own chess abilities?

6. When Luzhin watches the chess game between his classmates, what move excites him?

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

8. How doe Luzhin's fiancee seem like a dream to him?

9. How does Luzhin's father die?

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

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