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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nabokov remember about his father's remarkable writing ability?
(a) He could spell any word.
(b) He has beautiful handwriting.
(c) He is very poetic.
(d) He could write sentence after sentence without correction.

2. What is the response to Nabokov's published book of poems?
(a) Critics want to see another book published.
(b) No response.
(c) Huge praise.
(d) Critics are not kind.

3. What is a battle against the yawning darkness?
(a) Religion.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Love.
(d) Autobiography.

4. What does he do with a poem before he writes it down?
(a) He discusses his ideas with his father.
(b) He reads the poem to his mother.
(c) He writes it on a chalkboard.
(d) He contructs it entirely in his head.

5. In exile in America, when a ranger or marshal spots him traipsing into the backwoods, net in hand, what is he asked?
(a) Where his guide is.
(b) What the net is for.
(c) What he is doing in the woods.
(d) If he has a fishing license.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the first-class carriages feature?

2. Who are Miss Norcott and Miss Hunt?

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

4. What happens, when winter comes, to their love affair?

5. Though he is an excellent teacher to the Nabokov boys, what does Lenski find difficult?

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