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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) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Fifteen.

2. What fundamental drive does Luzhin's future wife have?
(a) The need to understand the world is a logical, organized way.
(b) The need to help any creature that is suffering.
(c) The need to romanticize herself to others.
(d) The need to feel superior to others.

3. How long is Luzhin sick after running away?
(a) A week.
(b) Three days.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) A day.

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

5. What does Luzhin's future wife's mother say she represents?
(a) The bohemian creative streak of their family.
(b) The otherworldly and the spiritual.
(c) The unromantic, logical, scientific world of the new era.
(d) The intelligencia and avante-garde literary world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luzhin like most at his birthday party?

2. What is Luzhin doing when he notices two other students taking out a chess set?

3. On the first game that Luzhin's opponent doesn't beat him, what is the result?

4. What present does Luzhin's fiancee bring to him at his hotel room?

5. Whose chess set does Luzhin get interested in?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, what school subject does Luzhin show interest in?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Luzhin feel about his aunt?

10. What authors does Luzhin like to read?

(see the answer keys)

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