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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What would change throughout Nabokov's childhood, depending on the prevailing advice of the family's current medical consultant?
(a) The temperature of the bath water.
(b) The medicines his mother uses.
(c) The temperature in his home.
(d) How much he exercises.

3. 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.

4. What is the last Nabokov hears of Lenski?
(a) He is scrapping by, selling painted seashells on the Riviera in France.
(b) He is a professor at the University of Paris.
(c) He owns a restaurant in Dublin.
(d) He is working as an actor in London.

5. Why does Nabokov have secret spots?
(a) He and his brother play in the secret spots.
(b) He finds them while writing poetry.
(c) He and Tamara find the secret spots.
(d) He has found them in pursuit of butterflies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nabokov feel exiled in Crimea, a Russian territory?

2. Why is Nabokov's tutor rebuked by his mother?

3. How does Lett punish the boys?

4. What is the response to Nabokov's published book of poems?

5. Why is Lenski working as a tutor?

(see the answer key)

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