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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the last Nabokov hears of Lenski?
(a) He is working as an actor in London.
(b) He owns a restaurant in Dublin.
(c) He is scrapping by, selling painted seashells on the Riviera in France.
(d) He is a professor at the University of Paris.

2. Where do the children bathe?
(a) English portable tubs.
(b) Russian baths.
(c) French bathing tubs.
(d) The creek on the estate.

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

4. What is Nabokov's favorite medium?
(a) Watercolors.
(b) Clay.
(c) Drawing.
(d) Oils.

5. How does the Nabokov family frequently travel from St. Petersburg to Paris?
(a) By stagecoach.
(b) In the elegant brown Nord-Express train
(c) In a sleigh.
(d) By horse and carriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. During one such trip in the summer of 1909, who does young Nabokov meet?

2. How does Mademoiselle provide Vladimir with an extra hour or two out of the darkness?

3. What intrigues the young Nabokov about the novel?

4. What earns Vladimir several rebukes from the Tsarist government?

5. What is seen as a dreaded event?

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