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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children do the Nabokovs eventually have?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

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

3. To what does Nabokov compare existence?
(a) A rollercoaster ride.
(b) A cradle rocking on the edge of an abyss.
(c) The sands in an hourglass.
(d) The seconds on a clock.

4. The boredom of the audience at these poetry performances is obvious to everyone but whom?
(a) Max.
(b) Lenski.
(c) Nabokov.
(d) Dmitri.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what descent is Nabokov's mother?

2. What does Vladimir do before hurrying young Nabokov along to school?

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

4. Who rents a modest summer cottage called a dachka?

5. Why does Young Vladimir favor the new methods of studying butterflies?

(see the answer key)

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