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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are two events that Nabokov remembers watching outside his mother's window?
(a) Mr. Burness' arrival and the revolutionary action in the street.
(b) Mr. Burness' arrival nad the village children on their way to school.
(c) The training of horses and the revolutionary action in the street.
(d) The training of horses and the village children on their way to school.

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 is Nabokov's tutor rebuked by his mother?
(a) He is being rude to her children.
(b) He is not doing an adequate job.
(c) He is repeatedly late.
(d) He spies on the young couple.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What precaution does Nabokov's father take?

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

4. Where do the children bathe?

5. Who is their first spelling tutor?

(see the answer key)

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