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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1910, what do the Nabokov brothers acquire?
(a) A dog.
(b) Teeth braces.
(c) A new estate.
(d) A new nanny.

2. What does Nabokov remember about his father's remarkable writing ability?
(a) He could spell any word.
(b) He has beautiful handwriting.
(c) He is very poetic.
(d) He could write sentence after sentence without correction.

3. In 1914, a sixteen-year-old Yuri visits the Nabokovs,and what does he produce?
(a) A girlfriend.
(b) A new invention.
(c) A cigarette case.
(d) A book for Nabokov.

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

5. What happens to Yuri in northern Crimea?
(a) He converts to Catholicism.
(b) He is captured.
(c) He is killed.
(d) He is married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vladimir continue to do while in exile in Berlin?

2. What is the last Nabokov hears of Lenski?

3. What tutor looks like the French actor Max Linder?

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

5. What is publication like outside of Russia?

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