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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the response to Nabokov's published book of poems?
(a) Huge praise.
(b) Critics want to see another book published.
(c) No response.
(d) Critics are not kind.

2. What tutor looks like the French actor Max Linder?
(a) A Greek spelling teacher.
(b) A polish medical student.
(c) A graduate student.
(d) A Russian literature tutor.

3. What happens, when winter comes, to their love affair?
(a) It fades to nothing.
(b) It has to endure a life of closer scrutiny.
(c) It ends.
(d) It comes out in the open.

4. Why does little Vladimir close his eyes at the bottom of each stairway?
(a) He and his brother are playing hide and seek.
(b) His father is taking him to bed.
(c) He and his mother are playing a game on the way to the children's sleeping rooms.
(d) His nanny is coaxing him up the stairs.

5. Why does Nabokov have secret spots?
(a) He and Tamara find the secret spots.
(b) He finds them while writing poetry.
(c) He has found them in pursuit of butterflies.
(d) He and his brother play in the secret spots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What types of tutors does Nabokov's father seem to intentionally choose?

2. Why does Max endear himself to the dogs?

3. Who dies young of a heart ailment?

4. How does Sergei save the brothers from the Bolsheviks on the train?

5. With what is the aristocratic Nabokov house stocked?

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