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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) Drawing.
(c) Watercolors.
(d) Oils.

2. Why do they hire the village schoolmaster, though he is not technically one of the family's regular tutors?
(a) To give them a crash course in the Russian language.
(b) To give them French lessons.
(c) To give them writing lessons.
(d) To give them mathematics lessons.

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

4. Why does Nabokov feel exiled in Crimea, a Russian territory?
(a) He misses Tamara.
(b) He misses his butterflies.
(c) He does not have his family with him.
(d) The environment is so foreign.

5. Who are Miss Norcott and Miss Hunt?
(a) Two of Vladimir's girlfriends.
(b) Two of Vladimir's governesses.
(c) Two of Vladimir's aunts.
(d) Two of Vladimir's tutors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last Nabokov hears of Lenski?

2. What happens, when winter comes, to their love affair?

3. Of what are Nabokov's memories in a Russian setting?

4. Why does Nabokov have secret spots?

5. What is the purpose of the Constituent Assembly?

(see the answer key)

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