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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Yuri and Nabokov invent?
(a) A game.
(b) A weapon.
(c) A way to distract siblings.
(d) A tool to make household chores easier.

2. What is Lenski's idea for the use of Magic-Lantern Projections?
(a) To play in the light from the lanterns.
(b) To create special effects on the wall.
(c) To create shadow puppets.
(d) To illustrate petic works with the use of slides.

3. What is publication like outside of Russia?
(a) Not as good as in Russia.
(b) A well-paying, satisfying career.
(c) Often insufficiently lucrative to provide a comfortable existence.
(d) Better than in the United States.

4. What is the purpose of the Constituent Assembly?
(a) To give power to the Soviets.
(b) To support the Soviets.
(c) Tries to limit the extent of Soviet control.
(d) To encourage Soviet control.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Sergei save the brothers from the Bolsheviks on the train?

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

4. His other brother, Sergey, is only a year younger than Nabokov. The two are raised together, but what makes them different?

5. How does she respond to his poem?

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