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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nabokov have secret spots?
(a) He and his brother play in the secret spots.
(b) He and Tamara find the secret spots.
(c) He finds them while writing poetry.
(d) He has found them in pursuit of butterflies.

2. In 1904, who does Nabokov remember meeting for the first time?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His sister.
(c) His youngest brother.
(d) His cousin.

3. What puts Nabokov at odds with many of his colleagues?
(a) His desire to emigrate to the United States.
(b) His inability to speak English.
(c) His opinions of the state of affairs in his home country.
(d) His Russian accent.

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

5. Who rents a modest summer cottage called a dachka?
(a) The Nabokov family.
(b) Nabokov's uncle.
(c) Colette parents.
(d) Tamara's parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. To where do the boys win scholarships?

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

3. What does he do with a poem before he writes it down?

4. Why does she hand him a hand mirror?

5. How does Nabokov's father die?

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