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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. They board the Sud-Express and disembark in what town?
(a) Marseille.
(b) Nice.
(c) Biarritz.
(d) Brest.

2. What does Vladimir study at St. Petersburg University?
(a) Law.
(b) Art.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Music.

3. 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) Mr. Burness' arrival nad the village children on their way to school.
(c) The training of horses and the revolutionary action in the street.
(d) The training of horses and the village children on their way to school.

4. Who is he surprised to see on stage as "The Gala Girls?"
(a) The American girls from the skating rink.
(b) His mother and his sisters.
(c) Colette and her friends.
(d) Girls from the local village.

5. What is one of his other memories?
(a) Getting his foot stuck in the crib.
(b) Playing tag with his younger brother.
(c) Getting lost in the estate's vast forest.
(d) A dark tunnel through which he crawls, behind a divan in his parent's home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the rain cause to grow on the estate?

2. What does the headstrong Yuri in later life introduce to Nabokov?

3. How does Nabokov open his autobiography?

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

5. What tutor looks like the French actor Max Linder?

(see the answer key)

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