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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How would Nabokov spend hours?
(a) Playing lawn tennis.
(b) Chasing butterflies.
(c) With a chess board in front of him.
(d) Writing poetry.

3. What is a crippling experience for him?
(a) Speaking English.
(b) Falling off a horse.
(c) Contracting polio.
(d) Writing poetry in Russian.

4. Other than his wife, what does Nabokov claim about his good friends?
(a) They are all writers.
(b) To have made no more than two good friends over a span of twenty years.
(c) He has many.
(d) They are artists and writers, like himself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What fills Nabokov with surprise, while roller-skating?

2. What does Vladimir do before hurrying young Nabokov along to school?

3. Nabokov develops a fondness for what?

4. Though he is an excellent teacher to the Nabokov boys, what does Lenski find difficult?

5. What does Nabokov confess about Yuri and himself?

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