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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 Luzhin's fiancee think of when she walks with him in the garden of the sanatorium?
(a) A book she read as a child.
(b) A sculpture she saw in a museum.
(c) A painting in her mother's home.
(d) A poem she loves.

2. What does Mrs. Luzhin show her husband, in a painting of the Last Supper?
(a) Trees in the background.
(b) Dogs under the table.
(c) Flowers in one of the apostle's hands.
(d) The symmetry of the walls.

3. What does Luzhin remember about his French governess?
(a) He remembers her riding the elevator instead of taking the stairs.
(b) He remembers her cracking him over the knuckles with a ruler.
(c) He remembers her sitting in the kitchen, laughing with the cook.
(d) He remembers her stealing cloth from his mother's sewing room.

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

5. What does Luzhin think vaguely of, but is unable to recall, while he is ill in the sanatorium?
(a) His first chess set.
(b) The smell of his aunt's perfume.
(c) His grandfather's chess magazines.
(d) His mother's hard candies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the student that Mrs. Luzhkin's visitor used to be in love with?

2. What room does Luzhin lock himself into?

3. What book does Mrs. Luzhin read aloud to her husband?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Luzhin feel at his wedding reception?

10. How does Luzhin read?

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