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

2. What precaution does Nabokov's father take?
(a) He puts them in hiding in St. Petersburg.
(b) He sends his family to Crimea.
(c) He changes their last name
(d) He sends them to the United States.

3. What happens, when winter comes, to their love affair?
(a) It fades to nothing.
(b) It ends.
(c) It comes out in the open.
(d) It has to endure a life of closer scrutiny.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Lenski working as a tutor?

2. Though he is an excellent teacher to the Nabokov boys, what does Lenski find difficult?

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

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

5. How does Lett punish the boys?

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