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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is their first spelling tutor?
(a) Dmitri.
(b) Ordo.
(c) Oliver.
(d) Max.

2. What is one thing he recalls suddenly becoming aware of while creating a poem?
(a) His father is speaking to him.
(b) He's standing in the rain.
(c) He has forgotten part of the poem.
(d) His mother is removing a plate of untouched food from in front of him.

3. What intrigues the young Nabokov about the novel?
(a) Its deliberate action and concern for honor.
(b) The description of nature and the American frontier.
(c) Its love of America and the wilderness.
(d) Its mystery and murder.

4. Who does Nabokov meet at the age of sixteen?
(a) His youngest brother.
(b) His cousin, Yuri.
(c) A young girl named Colette.
(d) A young girl named Tamara.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Vladimir is raised by his own share of governesses and tutors but where does he go at the age of 13?

2. What does Nabokov mean when he says poetry is positional?

3. What does Vladimir continue to do while in exile in Berlin?

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

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

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