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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. How does Luzhin treat the guests at his birthday?
(a) He makes rude comments to them.
(b) He is happy and talks to them constantly.
(c) He is polite to them but secretly hates them.
(d) He ignores them.

2. What present does Luzhin's fiancee bring to him at his hotel room?
(a) A cigarette holder.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Cufflinks.
(d) A box of chocolates.

3. In Luzhin's championship game against Turati, how does Turati open the game?
(a) With a laughingly stupid move.
(b) With a startlingly aggressive, unfamiliar move.
(c) With an ordinary, banal move.
(d) With his usual, successful move.

4. Luzhin spectacularly wins a chess game in Berlin after sacrificing what three pieces in a row?
(a) A pawn, a bishop, and a queen.
(b) A rook, a bishop, and a knight.
(c) A knight, a pawn, and a bishop.
(d) A queen, a rook, and a knight.

5. What does the doctor give to Luzhin?
(a) A chess timer.
(b) A set of chess pieces.
(c) A chess handbook.
(d) A chess board.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 8, where is Luzhin trying to go?

2. Who interrupts the chess game?

3. Who sketches Luzhin and Turati at the chess tournament in Berlin?

4. How old is Luzhin when he returns to the German resort where he went to with his father when recovering from his illness?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Luzhin's father die?

2. Why does Luzhin's mother leave her husband and son to return to Russia, and how does Luzhin's father react?

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

4. How does Valentinov view Luzhin?

5. What happens when Luzhin is found hiding in his family's house at the end of Chapter 1?

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

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

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

9. Why does Luzhin hide during his father's party?

10. What does Luzhin resent while he is working on a puzzle?

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