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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Lenski working as a tutor?
(a) He loves teaching children.
(b) He is paying off a debt to Nabokov's father.
(c) To put himself through graduate school at the University in St. Petersburg.
(d) To put his son through undergraduate school at Cambridge.

2. Who rents a modest summer cottage called a dachka?
(a) Colette parents.
(b) The Nabokov family.
(c) Tamara's parents.
(d) Nabokov's uncle.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who dies young of a heart ailment?

4. How does Lett punish the boys?

5. What is the last Nabokov hears of Lenski?

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