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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are two events that Nabokov remembers watching outside his mother's window?
(a) Mr. Burness' arrival nad the village children on their way to school.
(b) The training of horses and the village children on their way to school.
(c) Mr. Burness' arrival and the revolutionary action in the street.
(d) The training of horses and the revolutionary action in the street.

3. Why do they hire the village schoolmaster, though he is not technically one of the family's regular tutors?
(a) To give them writing lessons.
(b) To give them French lessons.
(c) To give them mathematics lessons.
(d) To give them a crash course in the Russian language.

4. What is the last Nabokov hears of Lenski?
(a) He is working as an actor in London.
(b) He owns a restaurant in Dublin.
(c) He is a professor at the University of Paris.
(d) He is scrapping by, selling painted seashells on the Riviera in France.

5. Why is Nabokov disappointed to hear that one of his tutors marries a peasant girl?
(a) He thinks he should have married one of his sisters.
(b) He thinks he should have married someone in a higher social class.
(c) He thinks he should have married his aunt.
(d) He thinks of his tutors as people devoted to their art or profession.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Nabokov have secret spots?

3. What is the response to Nabokov's published book of poems?

4. Who are Miss Norcott and Miss Hunt?

5. Of what are Nabokov's memories in a Russian setting?

(see the answer key)

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