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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does this hobby do to him?
(a) It encourages him to spend time outside.
(b) It encourages him to study.
(c) It helps him make friends.
(d) It isolates him throughout life.

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

3. What is happening to the science of butterflies at this time?
(a) The Germans have made leaps and bounds in discoveries.
(b) There is a great unheaval.
(c) They have not found any new species.
(d) It has not changed for decades.

4. What is the subject of this chapter?
(a) Nabokov's father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.
(b) Nabokov's brother, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.
(c) Nabokov's uncle, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.
(d) Nabokov's tutor, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.

5. What does Vladimir study at St. Petersburg University?
(a) Music.
(b) Art.
(c) Law.
(d) Medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mr. Cummings influence Nabokov's scientific drawings of butterflies?

2. Though he is an excellent teacher to the Nabokov boys, what does Lenski find difficult?

3. What is the first memory Nabokov drags from the darkness?

4. To what does the memory of the bracelet lead?

5. What is the last Nabokov hears of Lenski?

(see the answer key)

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