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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mademoiselle threatens several times to leave. Why does she end up staying?
(a) Nabokov's mother threatens her.
(b) Nabokov's mother talks her into staying
(c) Nabokov's mother gives her a raise.
(d) Nabokov's mother gives her gifts.

2. Nabokov develops a fondness for what?
(a) Composing chess problems.
(b) Lawn tennis.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Butterflies.

3. What happens to Yuri in northern Crimea?
(a) He is killed.
(b) He is married.
(c) He converts to Catholicism.
(d) He is captured.

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

5. What does Nabokov investigate about his family?
(a) Their religion.
(b) The family's coat of arms.
(c) Their country of origin.
(d) Their relationship to the tsar.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Each day, when he awakes, how can young Vladimir tell what kind of day it is?

3. Why does Nabokov have secret spots?

4. Why does Vasiliy insist upon lying supine on the floor?

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

(see the answer key)

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