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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 writing lessons.
(c) To give them mathematics lessons.
(d) To give them French lessons.

3. Soon, the string of nurses transforms into what?
(a) A string of doctors.
(b) A string of surgeons.
(c) A string of teachers.
(d) A string of governesses.

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

5. How does Sergei save the brothers from the Bolsheviks on the train?
(a) He convinces the Bolsheviks that he has leprosy.
(b) He holds them out a window.
(c) He convinces them he has typhus and that is why they are traveling alone in a locked compartment.
(d) He shoots at the Bolsheviks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nabokov learn to read and write before Russian or French?

2. Why is Nabokov disappointed to hear that one of his tutors marries a peasant girl?

3. Why does the relationship fizzle out?

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

5. Who does Nabokov meet at the age of sixteen?

(see the answer key)

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