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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Nabokov describe the poet?
(a) A man who can feel and interpret everything that is happening in any single moment.
(b) A man of simple words.
(c) A man he wishes to be.
(d) A man who can describe any setting.

2. Why does Nabokov ride his bike each afternoon past the house of the family's head coachmen?
(a) The coachman's daughter, Polenka, watches him ride by.
(b) He wants to see his prize stallion.
(c) He needs to apologize to the coachman.
(d) He wants to learn how to drive a coach.

3. What does Vladimir do before hurrying young Nabokov along to school?
(a) He checks his school work.
(b) He bends down to kiss Nabokov.
(c) He has him take a bath.
(d) He makes sure he eats breakfast.

4. How does she respond to his poem?
(a) She is hardly paying attention to the poem.
(b) She does not think it is very good.
(c) She sits patiently and then asks a lot of questions.
(d) She sits listening with tears in her eyes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What fills Nabokov with surprise, while roller-skating?

3. In 1910, what do the Nabokov brothers acquire?

4. What earns Vladimir several rebukes from the Tsarist government?

5. Why is Nabokov's tutor rebuked by his mother?

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