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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's father-in-law doing when Luzhin visits him at his office?
(a) Dictating.
(b) Reading some papers.
(c) Meeting with a colleague.
(d) Taking a nap.

2. After his wife's old friend from Russia visits, how does Luzhin begin seeing his life?
(a) As a game of chess.
(b) As a machine made of cogs.
(c) As a book written by his father.
(d) As a battle.

3. What does Luzhin feel like, when he moves into his new apartment after getting out of the hospital?
(a) Like he did whenever he started a new chess game.
(b) Like he did when he started school as a boy.
(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. When Luzhin asks the doctor who he is, what is the psychiatrist's reply?
(a) A psychiatrist.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A well-wisher.
(d) A friend.

5. Where does Luzhin disappear to at the ball?
(a) An armchair by the staircase.
(b) A nook behind the decorated tree.
(c) A private room upstairs.
(d) The coat room closet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What relative of Luzhin does Mrs. Luzhin's visitor know?

3. What does Mrs. Luzhin hope to interest her husband in?

4. What flowers are depicted on Mrs. Luzhin's mother's shawl, which she wears in her cold apartment?

5. What difference does Mrs. Luzhin see between Germany and Russia?

Short Essay Questions

1. What word keeps going through Mrs. Luzhin's mind on her wedding night, and what does it mean?

2. Why doesn't Luzhin's fiancee ask him about his tuxedo?

3. What does Luzhin think when the lights come on again after Ivan has knocked over the lamp?

4. What does Luzhin see in the window of a stationery store that fascinates him?

5. How does Luzhin falling unconscious affect his fiancee?

6. What letter does Luzhin send to a stranger?

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

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

9. What memory of his father does Luzhin recall when he stops to buy fruit?

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

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