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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1910, what do the Nabokov brothers acquire?
(a) Teeth braces.
(b) A new nanny.
(c) A new estate.
(d) A dog.

2. His other brother, Sergey, is only a year younger than Nabokov. The two are raised together, but what makes them different?
(a) They have different hair color.
(b) They have different tutors.
(c) They have disparate interests.
(d) They have different fathers.

3. During this time, of what does Nabokov seem incapable?
(a) A solid connection to any of the societies around him.
(b) Of getting married.
(c) Failing as a writer.
(d) Having too many friends.

4. What casts a cloud over the exiled Russian intelligentsia?
(a) Their inabiltiy to move to the United States.
(b) Their inability to move to another European coutnry.
(c) The inability to publish in their home country.
(d) Their inability to speak English.

5. Though he is an excellent teacher to the Nabokov boys, what does Lenski find difficult?
(a) Teaching the boys to be well-behaved.
(b) Making his lessons interesting.
(c) Teaching the boys mathematics.
(d) His own studies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does he describe with obvious revelry?

2. What is Vladimir elected to, which the Tsar dissolves?

3. Who does Nabokov marry?

4. After Cambridge, how is Nabokov's life?

5. What does she tell him when he is finished reciting the poem?

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