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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 does Valentinov tell Mrs. Luzhin to whisper in her husband's ear?
(a) It's not too late.
(b) Valentinov's come for you again.
(c) Valentinov's expecting you.
(d) Remember our little game?

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

3. At the wedding reception, how much champagne does Luzhin drink?
(a) None.
(b) Six glasses.
(c) Two glasses.
(d) Four glasses.

4. Who is more drunk, Kurt or Gunther?
(a) Kurt.
(b) Both are equally drunk.
(c) Gunther.
(d) Neither is drunk.

5. What author does Luzhin's fiancee tell her mother that Luzhin has never read?
(a) George Eliot.
(b) Thomas Carlyle.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Tolstoy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the house number of Luzhin's father's former house?

2. Who is taken off in the taxi cab?

3. What does Mrs. Luzhin feel when she reads to her husband?

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

5. Where does Mrs. Luzhin take her husband that he's never been before?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Luzhin falling unconscious affect his fiancee?

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

9. What is Luzhin doing when Ivan knocks over the lamp?

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

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