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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 many games does it take before Luzhin's opponent begins having difficulty beating him?
(a) Five.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Ten.

2. How old is young Luzhin at the beginning of the novel?
(a) 11.
(b) 10.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

3. During their walk the morning after the party, what does Luzhin's father suggest he take up?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Music.
(c) Drawing.
(d) Chess.

4. Who begins to teach Luzhin chess?
(a) His tutor.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

5. How does Luzhin's first wife's mother find out Luzhin wants to marry her daughter?
(a) Luzhin asks the mother for her daughter's hand.
(b) The mother overhears Luzhin and the daughter talking.
(c) The daughter tells her mother.
(d) The mother is told by a stranger at the hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Luzhin's future wife make him think of, when he first meets him?

2. What does the doctor give to Luzhin?

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

4. Where does Luzhin's father send Luzhin, after the chess lesson is interrupted?

5. What does Luzhin do immediately after proposing to his future wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What authors does Luzhin like to read?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is on Luzhin's father's mind during his first chess games with his son?

8. What problem does Luzhin have getting to his game with his final rival?

9. How does Valentinov view Luzhin?

10. The morning after the party, what are relations like between Luzhin's father, his aunt, and his mother?

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