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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During this time, of what does Nabokov seem incapable?
(a) Having too many friends.
(b) Of getting married.
(c) A solid connection to any of the societies around him.
(d) Failing as a writer.

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

3. Once, upon returning from the park with a poem freshly in his mind, what does he do?
(a) He recites it to his grandmother.
(b) He recites it to his nanny.
(c) He decides to recite the work to his mother.
(d) He recites it to his sister.

4. When does his first poem take shape in his mind?
(a) While searching for butterflies.
(b) While sitting with his mother.
(c) During a theatrical performance.
(d) During a sudden thunderstorm.

5. Though he is an excellent teacher to the Nabokov boys, what does Lenski find difficult?
(a) Teaching the boys to be well-behaved.
(b) Making his lessons interesting.
(c) His own studies.
(d) Teaching the boys mathematics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes becoming a Russian novelist an uphill battle for Nabokov at Cambridge?

2. What does she tell him when he is finished reciting the poem?

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

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

5. Why does Max endear himself to the dogs?

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