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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 tool to make household chores easier.
(c) A way to distract siblings.
(d) A weapon.

2. Why does Nabokov have secret spots?
(a) He finds them while writing poetry.
(b) He and his brother play in the secret spots.
(c) He and Tamara find the secret spots.
(d) He has found them in pursuit of butterflies.

3. Why is the relationship between Kirill, the younger brother, and Nabokov more like that of distant friends?
(a) They have such different personalities.
(b) Due to the large gap in their ages.
(c) Due to Kirill being given up for adoption.
(d) They do not get along.

4. What happens, when winter comes, to their love affair?
(a) It comes out in the open.
(b) It has to endure a life of closer scrutiny.
(c) It ends.
(d) It fades to nothing.

5. What fills Nabokov with surprise, while roller-skating?
(a) His mother skates very well.
(b) He is not very good.
(c) An older American girl comments on his excellent skating.
(d) Colette is also roller-skating.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does she respond to his poem?

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

3. What happens to Yuri in northern Crimea?

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

5. What does Vladimir study at St. Petersburg University?

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