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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. What is Luzhin like when his fiancee sits with him at the sanatorium?
(a) Luzhin is mostly angry and agitated.
(b) Luzhin is mostly talkative but distracted.
(c) Luzhin is mostly sullen and restless.
(d) Luzhin is mostly immobile and unresponsive.

2. Who is taken off in the taxi cab?
(a) Gunther.
(b) Kurt.
(c) Karl.
(d) Luzhin.

3. Who do the drunk men find waiting up by a lighted window at Luzhin's fiancee's parents' house?
(a) A servant.
(b) Luzhin's future mother-in-law.
(c) Luzhin's fiancee.
(d) Luzhin's future father-in-law.

4. Who is Petrishchev, the man Luzhin winds up talking to at the ball?
(a) A Brazilian plantation worker who was Luzhin's former classmate.
(b) An Egyptian hotel clerk who has Luzhin's aunt's godchild.
(c) A Canadian store owner who knew Mrs. Luzhin as a girl.
(d) A Parisian banker who was Luzhin's former chess opponent.

5. What does Mrs. Luzhin criticize about her body, as she examines herself in the mirror on her wedding night?
(a) Her neck.
(b) Her legs.
(c) Her hips.
(d) Her belly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else seems odd about Luzhin's old jacket, when Luzhin is trying it on?

2. After his wife's old friend from Russia visits, how does Luzhin begin seeing his life?

3. What are townspeople doing in the area where there are tennis courts in the summer, at the beginning of Chapter 13?

4. What is Luzhin's future mother-in-law's prime objection to her daughter marrying Luzhin?

5. What does Luzhin eventually win in the raffle at the ball?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Luzhin react to the parties of intellectuals that his wife entertains?

2. What does Luzhin realize when he overhears his wife talking to her visitor?

3. How does Luzhin read?

4. What does Luzhin's psychiatrist say about the possibility of him marrying?

5. Why does Mrs. Luzhin find it difficult to locate her husband at the ball?

6. What books that his fiancee brings him in the sanatorium does Luzhin enjoy?

7. What does Luzhin think is the point of the "game" being played against him?

8. What catches Luzhin's attention to distract him from chess that he is accidentally reminded of?

9. What letter does Luzhin send to a stranger?

10. How does Luzhin falling unconscious affect his fiancee?

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