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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Soon, the string of nurses transforms into what?
(a) A string of surgeons.
(b) A string of teachers.
(c) A string of doctors.
(d) A string of governesses.

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

3. What does the headstrong Yuri in later life introduce to Nabokov?
(a) Butterflies.
(b) The Wild West fiction of Captain Mayne Reid.
(c) The French language.
(d) Poetry.

4. How long does the family stay in Paris?
(a) Six months.
(b) One week.
(c) One night.
(d) One month.

5. What is happening to the science of butterflies at this time?
(a) There is a great unheaval.
(b) The Germans have made leaps and bounds in discoveries.
(c) It has not changed for decades.
(d) They have not found any new species.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nabokov open his autobiography?

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

3. What does Young Vladimir discover in the family's attic?

4. Why is Lenski working as a tutor?

5. What is the common name for Boletusoften?

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