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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 does Luzhin feel about the phonograph?
(a) He loves watching it turn and turn mechanically but doesn't like the music.
(b) He alternately loves and hates it.
(c) He enjoys sitting and listening to it with his wife.
(d) He finds it irritating and gets upset by the music.

2. What does Luzhin do in his mind while his wife reads to him?
(a) Relive childhood memories.
(b) Solve chess problems.
(c) Retreat to a formless, dark place.
(d) Imagine traveling to new lands.

3. What are townspeople doing in the area where there are tennis courts in the summer, at the beginning of Chapter 13?
(a) Holding a concert.
(b) Ice skating.
(c) Playing hockey.
(d) Having a snowball fight.

4. What book does Mrs. Luzhin read aloud to her husband?
(a) War and Peace.
(b) The Brothers Karamazov.
(c) Crime and Punishment.
(d) Doctor Zhivago.

5. How do Luzhin and his wife enter the ball?
(a) One following the other.
(b) From separate doors.
(c) Back to back.
(d) Arm in arm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mrs. Luzhin want her husband to visit?

2. What is Luzhin like when his fiancee sits with him at the sanatorium?

3. When was the last time Luzhin had been in church before his wedding?

4. What does Luzhin's future father-in-law talk to him about privately before his wedding?

5. When Luzhin dreams about Turati before his wedding, what is Turati doing in the dream?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What upsets Luzhien about the geography of the world?

6. How does Luzhin's fiancee's mother react to the idea that Luzhin is drunk?

7. How does Luzhin falling unconscious affect his fiancee?

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

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

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

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