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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who dies young of a heart ailment?
(a) A Ukrainian mathematician.
(b) A Greek spelling tutor.
(c) A Polish tutor.
(d) The schoolmaster.

2. 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.

3. What is the purpose of the Constituent Assembly?
(a) To encourage Soviet control.
(b) To support the Soviets.
(c) To give power to the Soviets.
(d) Tries to limit the extent of Soviet control.

4. What is one thing he recalls suddenly becoming aware of while creating a poem?
(a) He's standing in the rain.
(b) His mother is removing a plate of untouched food from in front of him.
(c) His father is speaking to him.
(d) He has forgotten part of the poem.

5. What earns Vladimir several rebukes from the Tsarist government?
(a) His tardiness to meetings.
(b) His increasing outspokenness about human rights.
(c) His teasing of the Tsarina.
(d) His refusal to be on this council.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Nabokov's life at Cambridge, compared to his former existence?

2. What precaution does Nabokov's father take?

3. Who is he surprised to see on stage as "The Gala Girls?"

4. Why does Nabokov have secret spots?

5. Why do they hire the village schoolmaster, though he is not technically one of the family's regular tutors?

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