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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 Lenski's idea for the use of Magic-Lantern Projections?
(a) To create shadow puppets.
(b) To create special effects on the wall.
(c) To play in the light from the lanterns.
(d) To illustrate petic works with the use of slides.

2. Why does Nabokov feel exiled in Crimea, a Russian territory?
(a) He misses Tamara.
(b) The environment is so foreign.
(c) He misses his butterflies.
(d) He does not have his family with him.

3. Why does the relationship fizzle out?
(a) Tamara moves back to St. Petersburg and gets a job.
(b) Tamara is tired of him.
(c) Nabokov's father finds out.
(d) They no longer have anything in common.

4. Who rents a modest summer cottage called a dachka?
(a) Nabokov's uncle.
(b) The Nabokov family.
(c) Colette parents.
(d) Tamara's parents.

5. What is the purpose of the Constituent Assembly?
(a) Tries to limit the extent of Soviet control.
(b) To encourage Soviet control.
(c) To support the Soviets.
(d) To give power to the Soviets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nabokov say they had lost that winter in St. Petersburg?

2. Who is their first spelling tutor?

3. What is the last Nabokov hears of Lenski?

4. What precaution does Nabokov's father take?

5. What tutor looks like the French actor Max Linder?

(see the answer key)

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