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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During one such trip in the summer of 1909, who does young Nabokov meet?
(a) A young French girl, named Colette.
(b) A young British girl, named Beth.
(c) A young German girl, named Brigitte.
(d) A young Spanish girl, named Clara.

3. What mystifies the two boys about Mademoiselle?
(a) She is kind most of the timea but can easily lose her temper.
(b)
(c) She has children that visit her once a month, but she never allows the two boys to play with her children.
(d) She reads many novels to the boys, all in French, with a smooth, gentle voice.

4. Why do they hire the village schoolmaster, though he is not technically one of the family's regular tutors?
(a) To give them a crash course in the Russian language.
(b) To give them mathematics lessons.
(c) To give them French lessons.
(d) To give them writing lessons.

5. What properties do the Nabokovs own until the Russian revolution?
(a) Several summer cottages on the Baltic Sea.
(b) A large estate in St. Petersburg.
(c) A large estate in Moscow.
(d) Several large estates south of St. Petersburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is memorable about this first memory?

2. What is Nabokov's favorite medium?

3. To what simple rule does Nabokov's mother ascribe?

4. With what is the aristocratic Nabokov house stocked?

5. What is Vladimir elected to, which the Tsar dissolves?

(see the answer key)

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