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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Vladimir elected to, which the Tsar dissolves?
(a) Russian House of Burgesses.
(b) First Russian Senate.
(c) First Russian Parliament.
(d) Russian Congress.

2. What is the first memory Nabokov drags from the darkness?
(a) Going on a picnic with his mother and father.
(b) Being fed by his nanny.
(c) Holding hands with his mother and father, as the three of them walk along a garden path in 1903,
(d) Playing in the yard on the estate.

3. What does Nabokov say they had lost that winter in St. Petersburg?
(a) Their "sylvan security."
(b) Their "secret hideaway."
(c) Their "lovers' nest."
(d) Their "true identities."

4. How do the aristocrats confront the ocean waves?
(a) With the help of professional bathers.
(b) On a boat.
(c) By swimming in groups.
(d) By diving in.

5. Though he is an excellent teacher to the Nabokov boys, what does Lenski find difficult?
(a) Making his lessons interesting.
(b) His own studies.
(c) Teaching the boys mathematics.
(d) Teaching the boys to be well-behaved.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Nabokov see Mademoiselle again after she is no longer in their household?

2. What does young Nabokov's status as a child of the intelligentsia often do to him?

3. During one such trip in the summer of 1909, who does young Nabokov meet?

4. To where do the boys win scholarships?

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

(see the answer key)

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