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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Nabokov's favorite medium?
(a) Clay.
(b) Watercolors.
(c) Drawing.
(d) Oils.

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

3. The boredom of the audience at these poetry performances is obvious to everyone but whom?
(a) Dmitri.
(b) Max.
(c) Nabokov.
(d) Lenski.

4. With what is the aristocratic Nabokov house stocked?
(a) French literature.
(b) English and French amenities.
(c) Russian antiques.
(d) German beer.

5. How does Sergei save the brothers from the Bolsheviks on the train?
(a) He holds them out a window.
(b) He convinces them he has typhus and that is why they are traveling alone in a locked compartment.
(c) He shoots at the Bolsheviks.
(d) He convinces the Bolsheviks that he has leprosy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nabokov say they had lost that winter in St. Petersburg?

2. Who does Nabokov meet at the age of sixteen?

3. Why does Max endear himself to the dogs?

4. What is the last Nabokov hears of Lenski?

5. What does Nabokov learn to read and write before Russian or French?

(see the answer key)

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