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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 the house number of Luzhin's father's former house?
(a) Thirty-five A.
(b) Thirty-seven B.
(c) Thirty-three C.
(d) Thirty-one D.

2. What fault does Luzhin's fiancee find with the material Luzhin selects?
(a) She finds it too scratchy.
(b) She finds it too dark.
(c) She finds its color will run.
(d) She finds it creases easily.

3. What two events become mixed up in Luzhin's perception?
(a) Buying a hat and visiting a travel agent.
(b) Visiting the dentist and getting his passport.
(c) Visitig a travel agent and getting his passport.
(d) Buying a hat and visiting the dentist.

4. What does Luzhin's new landlady chide him for forgetting?
(a) He forgets to lock his room when he leaves.
(b) He forgets to take in the newspaper and milk.
(c) He forgets to turn out the light and close his door.
(d) He forgets to pay his rent.

5. What do the doctor and Luzhin's fiancee call his years of playing chess?
(a) Dead years.
(b) Lost years.
(c) Gray years.
(d) Mindful years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Luzhin disappear to at the ball?

2. Who does Kurt think Luzhin is at first?

3. What else seems odd about Luzhin's old jacket, when Luzhin is trying it on?

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

5. How does Luzhin feel about the phonograph?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Luzhin read?

3. How does Luzhin feel at his wedding reception?

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

5. How does Luzhin kill himself?

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

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

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

9. How to Kurt and Karl know where to send Luzhin in the taxi?

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

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