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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 future mother-in-law's prime objection to her daughter marrying Luzhin?
(a) She thinks Luzhin is from a bad family.
(b) She is afraid Luzhin is mentally unstable.
(c) She thinks Luzhin is uncouth.
(d) She thinks her daughter doesn't love him.

2. What does Mrs. Luzhin feel when she reads to her husband?
(a) Anger.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Joy.
(d) Nervousness.

3. What year is the desk calendar that Luzhin's fiancee finds in his room?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1938.

4. When Mrs. Luzhin's intellectual guests gather at the tea table, what is the immediate response?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Silence.
(c) A cacophony of talking.
(d) A clatter of dishes and teacups.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the doctor and Luzhin's fiancee call his years of playing chess?

3. What is the one thing Luzhin finds wrong with the old jacket he begs his wife to let him keep?

4. Who meets Luzhin and his new wife when they arrive home after their reception?

5. Of the portraits Luzhin makes, which turns out the best?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What letter does Luzhin send to a stranger?

4. What is Mrs. Luzhin reminded of when she reads Soviet newspapers?

5. What does Luzhin's psychiatrist ask him about?

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

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

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

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

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

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