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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Nabokov's tutor rebuked by his mother?
(a) He is being rude to her children.
(b) He is not doing an adequate job.
(c) He is repeatedly late.
(d) He spies on the young couple.

2. What fills Nabokov with surprise, while roller-skating?
(a) His mother skates very well.
(b) Colette is also roller-skating.
(c) He is not very good.
(d) An older American girl comments on his excellent skating.

3. Where does Nabokov's family live until his father's death in 1922?
(a) In Hamburg.
(b) In Paris.
(c) In Berlin.
(d) In Brussels.

4. What is Nabokov's favorite Captain Mayne Reid novel?
(a) Johnny Appleseed.
(b) Bonnie and Clyde.
(c) Paul Bunyan.
(d) The Headless Horseman.

5. When does Nabokov eventually discover a new species?
(a) Not until he is an old man, living in exile in the United States.
(b) In Germany visiting his family.
(c) At Cambridge.
(d) As a small boy in Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a battle against the yawning darkness?

2. What does Nabokov mean when he says poetry is positional?

3. What does Sergey do during WWII?

4. How does she respond to his poem?

5. Why does Nabokov ride his bike each afternoon past the house of the family's head coachmen?

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