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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 320-369.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Plough want Vanessa to do after graduation?
(a) Write a novel.
(b) Seek professional therapy.
(c) Enter the graduate writing program.
(d) Get her teaching certificate.

2. What has Vanessa’s mother taken from her room following her expulsion from Browick?
(a) Her box of letters from Strane.
(b) Her copy of Lolita.
(c) Her yearbook.
(d) Her Polaroid of her and Strane.

3. According to Vanessa on page 319, what does she need her relationship with Strane to be?
(a) A comedy.
(b) A coming-of-age story.
(c) A horror story.
(d) A love story.

4. On page 368, Vanessa realizes she wants to see the world without Strane where?
(a) Under her skin.
(b) In her thoughts.
(c) Behind her eyes.
(d) In her ear.

5. What Nabokov novel does Vanessa discuss with Plough, intriguing him?
(a) Despair.
(b) Laughter in the Dark.
(c) Pale Fire.
(d) Pnin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one reason teenage girls should not date older men, as Vanessa reasons on page 260?

2. What is the first name of Mr. Strane, the teacher who is being accused of assault at the start of the novel?

3. How does Vanessa feel on page 59?

4. What is Vanessa’s job as the novel opens?

5. How does Vanessa describe the word “survivor” on page 232?

(see the answer key)

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