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

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

3. Who interrupts Luzhin's first chess lesson?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His mother.
(c) His tutor.
(d) His father.

4. At the beginning of the novel, what does the main character associate the name "Luzhin" with?
(a) Himself.
(b) His mother.
(c) Nothing.
(d) His father.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long is Luzhin sick after running away?

3. How does Luzhin's first wife's mother find out Luzhin wants to marry her daughter?

4. What does Luzhin's future wife's mother say she represents?

5. How does Luzhin think fellow students feel about him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Luzhin feel about playing chess blind?

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

4. Who does Luzhin nearly run into on the first day he skips school?

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

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

7. How does Valentinov view Luzhin?

8. Describe Luzhin's future wife when he meets her in Germany.

9. How does Luzhin's father die?

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

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