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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Nabokov's mother trick Dimitri into believing he is still?
(a) In Russia.
(b) In Greece.
(c) In France.
(d) In London.

2. Who dies young of a heart ailment?
(a) A Polish tutor.
(b) The schoolmaster.
(c) A Ukrainian mathematician.
(d) A Greek spelling tutor.

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

4. What does Young Vladimir discover in the family's attic?
(a) A book of his family's ancestry.
(b) A small treasure trove of scientific books
(c) A small collection of exotic butterflies.
(d) Souvenirs from the family trips to France.

5. What does the rain cause to grow on the estate?
(a) Geraniums.
(b) Grass.
(c) Hibiscus.
(d) Mushrooms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sergey do during WWII?

2. What makes becoming a Russian novelist an uphill battle for Nabokov at Cambridge?

3. In 1914, a sixteen-year-old Yuri visits the Nabokovs,and what does he produce?

4. What does Nabokov learn to read and write before Russian or French?

5. Why does Nabokov's father force the family to leave a sidewalk cafe?

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