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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 the response to Nabokov's published book of poems?
(a) Huge praise.
(b) No response.
(c) Critics are not kind.
(d) Critics want to see another book published.

2. Who dies young of a heart ailment?
(a) A Greek spelling tutor.
(b) A Polish tutor.
(c) The schoolmaster.
(d) A Ukrainian mathematician.

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

4. Why is Nabokov disappointed to hear that one of his tutors marries a peasant girl?
(a) He thinks of his tutors as people devoted to their art or profession.
(b) He thinks he should have married his aunt.
(c) He thinks he should have married someone in a higher social class.
(d) He thinks he should have married one of his sisters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the children bathe?

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

3. Soon, the string of nurses transforms into what?

4. What precaution does Nabokov's father take?

5. What tutor looks like the French actor Max Linder?

(see the answer key)

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