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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are two events that Nabokov remembers watching outside his mother's window?
(a) The training of horses and the revolutionary action in the street.
(b) The training of horses and the village children on their way to school.
(c) Mr. Burness' arrival nad the village children on their way to school.
(d) Mr. Burness' arrival and the revolutionary action in the street.

2. During one such trip in the summer of 1909, who does young Nabokov meet?
(a) A young German girl, named Brigitte.
(b) A young British girl, named Beth.
(c) A young Spanish girl, named Clara.
(d) A young French girl, named Colette.

3. For whom is young Vladimir mistaken?
(a) A Swedish boy.
(b) A German boy.
(c) An English boy.
(d) An American boy.

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

5. How does Nabokov open his autobiography?
(a) With a short meditation on the periods of inexistence before birth and after death.
(b) With an examination of his early childhood.
(c) With a short story about the birth of his son.
(d) With a short review of Russian history.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is he detained briefly in 1918, by a Bolshevik soldier?

2. What is their mother's reaction when she sees that her children have opened the presents from their stockings early and poorly rewrapped them?

3. Why is Lenski working as a tutor?

4. What is the last Nabokov hears of Lenski?

5. What does the revolution do to most of the Russian writers and artists?

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