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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a crippling experience for him?
(a) Writing poetry in Russian.
(b) Speaking English.
(c) Falling off a horse.
(d) Contracting polio.

3. What does the headstrong Yuri in later life introduce to Nabokov?
(a) The Wild West fiction of Captain Mayne Reid.
(b) Butterflies.
(c) Poetry.
(d) The French language.

4. Why does Nabokov feel exiled in Crimea, a Russian territory?
(a) He misses his butterflies.
(b) He misses Tamara.
(c) He does not have his family with him.
(d) The environment is so foreign.

5. What earns Vladimir several rebukes from the Tsarist government?
(a) His teasing of the Tsarina.
(b) His tardiness to meetings.
(c) His refusal to be on this council.
(d) His increasing outspokenness about human rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nabokov open his autobiography?

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

3. Vladimir is raised by his own share of governesses and tutors but where does he go at the age of 13?

4. Who is their first spelling tutor?

5. When do they arrive in Paris?

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