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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does the relationship fizzle out?
(a) Nabokov's father finds out.
(b) Tamara is tired of him.
(c) Tamara moves back to St. Petersburg and gets a job.
(d) They no longer have anything in common.

5. Why does Max endear himself to the dogs?
(a) He is initially afraid of them, so he gives them treats, so they will stay calm.
(b) He loves dogs.
(c) He would like to own a kennel of his own some day.
(d) So they do not raise the alarm when he comes back from his late night trysts.

Short Answer Questions

1. The boredom of the audience at these poetry performances is obvious to everyone but whom?

2. Who dies young of a heart ailment?

3. Why is Lenski working as a tutor?

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

5. Soon, the string of nurses transforms into what?

(see the answer key)

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