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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are two events that Nabokov remembers watching outside his mother's window?
(a) Mr. Burness' arrival and the revolutionary action in the street.
(b) The training of horses and the village children on their way to school.
(c) The training of horses and the revolutionary action in the street.
(d) Mr. Burness' arrival nad the village children on their way to school.

2. Though many doubt this ailment, What happens to Ivanovich?
(a) He ends up with scoliosis.
(b) He slips a disc.
(c) He dies of a heart ailment.
(d) He dies from lung cancer.

3. What would change throughout Nabokov's childhood, depending on the prevailing advice of the family's current medical consultant?
(a) The temperature of the bath water.
(b) The temperature in his home.
(c) How much he exercises.
(d) The medicines his mother uses.

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

5. In 1914, a sixteen-year-old Yuri visits the Nabokovs,and what does he produce?
(a) A cigarette case.
(b) A book for Nabokov.
(c) A new invention.
(d) A girlfriend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vladimir continue to do while in exile in Berlin?

2. What does Vladimir study at St. Petersburg University?

3. Who occupies one of the estates near St. Petersburg when not abroad?

4. What does Nabokov learn to read and write before Russian or French?

5. How does Lett punish the boys?

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