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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tutor looks like the French actor Max Linder?
(a) A Russian literature tutor.
(b) A Greek spelling teacher.
(c) A graduate student.
(d) A polish medical student.

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

3. What is Lenski's idea for the use of Magic-Lantern Projections?
(a) To create special effects on the wall.
(b) To create shadow puppets.
(c) To illustrate petic works with the use of slides.
(d) To play in the light from the lanterns.

4. Who is their first spelling tutor?
(a) Ordo.
(b) Max.
(c) Oliver.
(d) Dmitri.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last Nabokov hears of Lenski?

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

3. With what is the aristocratic Nabokov house stocked?

4. What precaution does Nabokov's father take?

5. What are two events that Nabokov remembers watching outside his mother's window?

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