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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. It is 5 a.m., and what has just happened?
(a) He is returning home to Russia.
(b) Nabokov's wife, Vyra, has just given birth to their first child.
(c) His father has just died.
(d) He and his family are boarding a steamer to New York.

3. What is one thing he recalls suddenly becoming aware of while creating a poem?
(a) His father is speaking to him.
(b) His mother is removing a plate of untouched food from in front of him.
(c) He has forgotten part of the poem.
(d) He's standing in the rain.

4. How many children do the Nabokovs eventually have?
(a) Two.
(b) Six.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In exile in America, when a ranger or marshal spots him traipsing into the backwoods, net in hand, what is he asked?

2. Other than his wife, what does Nabokov claim about his good friends?

3. On what does the rest of the family live?

4. Who finds himself surrounded by social elites whose view of the Revolution is, at least at first, far more positive than his own?

5. What do the first-class carriages feature?

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