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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vladimir continue to do while in exile in Berlin?
(a) Own property in Russia.
(b) Work for the Russian government.
(c) Write about human rights.
(d) Take his family to France for the summers.

2. Where does Nabokov's family live until his father's death in 1922?
(a) In Brussels.
(b) In Hamburg.
(c) In Paris.
(d) In Berlin.

3. Why does Nabokov ride his bike each afternoon past the house of the family's head coachmen?
(a) He needs to apologize to the coachman.
(b) The coachman's daughter, Polenka, watches him ride by.
(c) He wants to learn how to drive a coach.
(d) He wants to see his prize stallion.

4. After his retirement, from what does Dimitri Nabokov begin to suffer?
(a) Emphysema.
(b) Dementia.
(c) Arthritis.
(d) Heart disease.

5. What does this thriving upper-class tourist industry offer?
(a) Expensive restaurants, street vendors, and swimming lessons.
(b) Vendors lining the beach and even servants in the change huts to assist in the removal of bathing suits.
(c) Live performances, pubs and restaurants, and bicycles to rent.
(d) Gambling, live theatre, and music.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom is young Vladimir mistaken?

2. Why does the relationship fizzle out?

3. When do they arrive in Paris?

4. What is memorable about this first memory?

5. Why is Lenski working as a tutor?

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