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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens, when winter comes, to their love affair?
(a) It comes out in the open.
(b) It has to endure a life of closer scrutiny.
(c) It ends.
(d) It fades to nothing.

2. How does the family spend their time in this town?
(a) Mountain climbing.
(b) On the beach.
(c) Shopping.
(d) On a boat.

3. What do both Vladimir's writings on technical matters as well as philosophical have in common?
(a) They have the same steadiness of thought.
(b) They are both boring.
(c) They are inspiring.
(d) They are filled with mistakes.

4. It is unusual for aristocrats in Russian to be hanged, and as a child, what does Nabokov call the trail through the woods on the estate where a previous owner had been hanged?
(a) The "walk of the Hanged One."
(b) The "Road to a Hanging."
(c) The "Path of the Hanged."
(d) The "Hanging Rope."

5. How does she respond to his poem?
(a) She does not think it is very good.
(b) She sits listening with tears in her eyes.
(c) She sits patiently and then asks a lot of questions.
(d) She is hardly paying attention to the poem.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Nabokov mean when he says poetry is positional?

3. What does Vladimir study at St. Petersburg University?

4. How does Nabokov open his autobiography?

5. This chapter is the first recorded work, published in French in 1936, under the name "Mademoiselle O."

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