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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vladimir do before hurrying young Nabokov along to school?
(a) He has him take a bath.
(b) He makes sure he eats breakfast.
(c) He bends down to kiss Nabokov.
(d) He checks his school work.

2. What is happening to the science of butterflies at this time?
(a) The Germans have made leaps and bounds in discoveries.
(b) It has not changed for decades.
(c) There is a great unheaval.
(d) They have not found any new species.

3. Who accompanies Vladimir and his companion on the beach?
(a) A fox terrier.
(b) The girl's little brother.
(c) His cousiin, Yuri.
(d) A cocker spaniel.

4. What is the first memory Nabokov drags from the darkness?
(a) Playing in the yard on the estate.
(b) Being fed by his nanny.
(c) Going on a picnic with his mother and father.
(d) Holding hands with his mother and father, as the three of them walk along a garden path in 1903,

5. Though he is an excellent teacher to the Nabokov boys, what does Lenski find difficult?
(a) Teaching the boys mathematics.
(b) Teaching the boys to be well-behaved.
(c) His own studies.
(d) Making his lessons interesting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country does the family travel through on their way to London?

2. How does the family spend their time in this town?

3. What does Nabokov investigate about his family?

4. How is Nabokov's life at Cambridge, compared to his former existence?

5. What happens, when winter comes, to their love affair?

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