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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. When does Nabokov begin to write poetry?
(a) Around 1934.
(b) Around 1924.
(c) Around 1914.
(d) Around 1904.

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

4. How does Nabokov's father die?
(a) He has a heart attack in Paris.
(b) He is assassinated in Berlin.
(c) He has a stroke in Berlin.
(d) He commits suicide in Paris.

5. What does Nabokov confess about Yuri and himself?
(a) They wish they had girlfriends.
(b) The devastation of war is new to them.
(c) They know nothing about America.
(d) The "slums of sex" were unknown to both of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What casts a cloud over the exiled Russian intelligentsia?

2. During this time, of what does Nabokov seem incapable?

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

4. Vladimir is raised by his own share of governesses and tutors but where does he go at the age of 13?

5. What does Nabokov remember about his father's remarkable writing ability?

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