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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does his first poem take shape in his mind?
(a) While searching for butterflies.
(b) While sitting with his mother.
(c) During a sudden thunderstorm.
(d) During a theatrical performance.

3. Why does Sergey end up in a concentration camp?
(a) He humiliated a high-ranking official.
(b) He is captured by the Nazis as a POW.
(c) Due to his outspoken opposition to the regime.
(d) He is Jewish.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Other than his wife, what does Nabokov claim about his good friends?

2. What is one thing he recalls suddenly becoming aware of while creating a poem?

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

4. What is the last Nabokov hears of Lenski?

5. After Cambridge, how is Nabokov's life?

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