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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the headstrong Yuri in later life introduce to Nabokov?
(a) Butterflies.
(b) The French language.
(c) Poetry.
(d) The Wild West fiction of Captain Mayne Reid.

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

3. Who is he surprised to see on stage as "The Gala Girls?"
(a) Colette and her friends.
(b) The American girls from the skating rink.
(c) His mother and his sisters.
(d) Girls from the local village.

4. The boredom of the audience at these poetry performances is obvious to everyone but whom?
(a) Nabokov.
(b) Dmitri.
(c) Max.
(d) Lenski.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. While he is writing a poem, to what is he prone?

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

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

4. What happens to Yuri in northern Crimea?

5. What is Vladimir elected to, which the Tsar dissolves?

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