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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country does the family travel through on their way to London?
(a) Italy.
(b) France.
(c) Greece.
(d) Belgium.

2. His other brother, Sergey, is only a year younger than Nabokov. The two are raised together, but what makes them different?
(a) They have different tutors.
(b) They have disparate interests.
(c) They have different hair color.
(d) They have different fathers.

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 inspiring.
(c) They are filled with mistakes.
(d) They are both boring.

4. The boredom of the audience at these poetry performances is obvious to everyone but whom?
(a) Dmitri.
(b) Nabokov.
(c) Max.
(d) Lenski.

5. What precaution does Nabokov's father take?
(a) He puts them in hiding in St. Petersburg.
(b) He sends his family to Crimea.
(c) He sends them to the United States.
(d) He changes their last name

6. In 1910, what do the Nabokov brothers acquire?
(a) Teeth braces.
(b) A new nanny.
(c) A new estate.
(d) A dog.

7. What casts a cloud over the exiled Russian intelligentsia?
(a) Their inability to speak English.
(b) Their inability to move to another European coutnry.
(c) The inability to publish in their home country.
(d) Their inabiltiy to move to the United States.

8. Why does she hand him a hand mirror?
(a) He has a cut on his forehead.
(b) His face is covered in dirt.
(c) He had smashed a mosquito on his cheek.
(d) He has grown so much.

9. Who does Nabokov marry?
(a) Vyra.
(b) Yuria.
(c) Colette.
(d) Isabella.

10. In 1914, a sixteen-year-old Yuri visits the Nabokovs,and what does he produce?
(a) A girlfriend.
(b) A cigarette case.
(c) A book for Nabokov.
(d) A new invention.

11. Why do they hire the village schoolmaster, though he is not technically one of the family's regular tutors?
(a) To give them French lessons.
(b) To give them a crash course in the Russian language.
(c) To give them mathematics lessons.
(d) To give them writing lessons.

12. After Cambridge, how is Nabokov's life?
(a) A life of financial success and artistic destitution.
(b) A similar life to that in Russia.
(c) A life of financial destitution and intellectual opulence.
(d) A middle-class life.

13. What does she tell him when he is finished reciting the poem?
(a) Studying butterflies is a better way to spend one's day.
(b) He should find another hobby.
(c) She proclaims it wonderful and beyond compare.
(d) He should have it published.

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

15. What does Nabokov say they had lost that winter in St. Petersburg?
(a) Their "lovers' nest."
(b) Their "secret hideaway."
(c) Their "true identities."
(d) Their "sylvan security."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who dies young of a heart ailment?

3. At what does Nabokov hint about Sergey?

4. What is the purpose of the Constituent Assembly?

5. What is Lenski's idea for the use of Magic-Lantern Projections?

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