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

2. What is the purpose of the Constituent Assembly?
(a) To give power to the Soviets.
(b) Tries to limit the extent of Soviet control.
(c) To support the Soviets.
(d) To encourage Soviet control.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What types of tutors does Nabokov's father seem to intentionally choose?

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

3. What precaution does Nabokov's father take?

4. Why does Max endear himself to the dogs?

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

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