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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. Where does Mrs. Luzhin want her husband to visit?
(a) A friend of his father's.
(b) His father's old house.
(c) His father's old office.
(d) His father's grave.

2. What is the one thing Luzhin finds wrong with the old jacket he begs his wife to let him keep?
(a) A rip in the lapel.
(b) A mark on the collar.
(c) A hole in the pocket.
(d) A missing button.

3. What does Luzhin feel like, when he moves into his new apartment after getting out of the hospital?
(a) Like he did when he started school as a boy.
(b) Like he did whenever he started a new chess game.
(c) Like he did whenever moving into a new hotel room.
(d) Like he did when moving from country to town as a child.

4. What children does Mrs. Luzhin's visitor have?
(a) A little girl.
(b) A little boy.
(c) A little boy and a little girl.
(d) Two little girls.

5. When he wakes in the hospital, what does Luzhin ask a nurse?
(a) What day is it?
(b) What time is it?
(c) Where am I?
(d) Who are you?

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luzhin teach himself, after visiting his father-in-law's office?

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

3. What color does Luzhin choose for his suit?

4. What does Luzhin do in his mind while his wife reads to him?

5. What does Valentinov do in the car, as he drives Luzhin to his club?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. At the ball, how does Mrs. Luzhin compare the movie actresses to her husband in her mind?

3. What does Valentinov want Luzhin to do for him?

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

5. How does Luzhin react after meeting an old acquaintance at the ball?

6. How does Luzhin's fiancee feel about their new apartment as she furnishes it?

7. How does Luzhin falling unconscious affect his fiancee?

8. What are Mrs. Luzhin's political opinions about the Soviet Union?

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

10. What does Luzhin's future mother-in-law feel as the wedding approaches?

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