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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Yuri and Nabokov invent?
(a) A way to distract siblings.
(b) A game.
(c) A weapon.
(d) A tool to make household chores easier.

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

4. Vladimir is raised by his own share of governesses and tutors but where does he go at the age of 13?
(a) Poly Preparatory.
(b) Berkshire Boys Academy.
(c) St. Petersburg Academy.
(d) The Gymnasium.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lett punish the boys?

2. What does Nabokov mean when he says poetry is positional?

3. What puts Nabokov at odds with many of his colleagues?

4. What is happening in the larger cities of Western Europe?

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

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