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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who finds himself surrounded by social elites whose view of the Revolution is, at least at first, far more positive than his own?
(a) Yuri.
(b) Dmitri.
(c) Nabokov.
(d) Sergey.

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

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

4. What is happening in the larger cities of Western Europe?
(a) They are unhappy about the number of Russians.
(b) Russian writers and artists have a considerable presence.
(c) They are not allowing Russians to immigrate to their countries.
(d) They are losing Russian immigrants.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who rents a modest summer cottage called a dachka?

2. What does he describe with obvious revelry?

3. In 1914, a sixteen-year-old Yuri visits the Nabokovs,and what does he produce?

4. Who does Nabokov meet at the age of sixteen?

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

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