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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vladimir continue to do while in exile in Berlin?
(a) Write about human rights.
(b) Work for the Russian government.
(c) Take his family to France for the summers.
(d) Own property in Russia.

2. At the time the family moves, where are Nabokov and his brother?
(a) In Cambridge.
(b) In New York University.
(c) In the University of Paris.
(d) In Oxford.

3. For whom is young Vladimir mistaken?
(a) A Swedish boy.
(b) An American boy.
(c) An English boy.
(d) A German boy.

4. After his father's death, to where does Nabokov's widowed mother move?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Prague.
(d) Berlin.

5. What game does the whole family often play on the estate?
(a) Rounders.
(b) Lawn bowling.
(c) Badmitton.
(d) Lawn tennis.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what is the aristocratic Nabokov house stocked?

3. What does Nabokov remember about his father's remarkable writing ability?

4. What do both Vladimir's writings on technical matters as well as philosophical have in common?

5. How does Nabokov's father die?

(see the answer key)

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