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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The rest of the chapters are published separately, mainly by whom?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) The Chicago Tribune.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The St. Petersburg Publishing House.

2. In 1910, what do the Nabokov brothers acquire?
(a) A dog.
(b) A new nanny.
(c) Teeth braces.
(d) A new estate.

3. How does Lett punish the boys?
(a) By giving them chores to do.
(b) By telling their parents.
(c) By having them sit facing a corner.
(d) By forcing them to spar with him in the boxing ring.

4. Who are some of the ancestors on Nabokov's paternal, Russian side?
(a) A lawyer, scientist, and Dmitri Nabokov, a well-known actor.
(b) A government leader, an opera singer, and Dmitri Nabokov, the surgeon.
(c) An explorer, the sister of a prominent Decembrist, and Dmitri Nabokov, the author's grandfather, who served as Minister of Justice for eight years.
(d) A prominent Caholic cardinal, a physician, and Dmitri Nabokov, an inventor.

5. To whom does Nabokov feel the strongest bond of kinship?
(a) His mother's maternal grandfather, Nikolay Illarionovich Kozlov.
(b) His father's paternal grandfather, Nikolay Illarionovich Kozlov.
(c) His father's maternal grandfather, Nikolay Illarionovich Kozlov.
(d) His mother's paternal grandfather, Nikolay Illarionovich Kozlov.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last Nabokov hears of Lenski?

2. Why is Nabokov disappointed to hear that one of his tutors marries a peasant girl?

3. How does Mr. Cummings influence Nabokov's scientific drawings of butterflies?

4. With what is the aristocratic Nabokov house stocked?

5. What fills Nabokov with surprise, while roller-skating?

(see the answer key)

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