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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nabokov learn to read and write before Russian or French?
(a) German.
(b) English.
(c) Swedish.
(d) Dutch.

2. Where do the children bathe?
(a) The creek on the estate.
(b) English portable tubs.
(c) Russian baths.
(d) French bathing tubs.

3. What happens, when winter comes, to their love affair?
(a) It comes out in the open.
(b) It has to endure a life of closer scrutiny.
(c) It fades to nothing.
(d) It ends.

4. Why is Nabokov's tutor rebuked by his mother?
(a) He is not doing an adequate job.
(b) He is repeatedly late.
(c) He spies on the young couple.
(d) He is being rude to her children.

5. What is the purpose of the Constituent Assembly?
(a) To give power to the Soviets.
(b) To support the Soviets.
(c) Tries to limit the extent of Soviet control.
(d) To encourage Soviet control.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last Nabokov hears of Lenski?

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

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

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

5. Who rents a modest summer cottage called a dachka?

(see the answer key)

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