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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What casts a cloud over the exiled Russian intelligentsia?
(a) The inability to publish in their home country.
(b) Their inability to speak English.
(c) Their inability to move to another European coutnry.
(d) Their inabiltiy to move to the United States.

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

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

4. What does the revolution do to most of the Russian writers and artists?
(a) Hires them to write about the revolution.
(b) Gives them subjects for their work.
(c) Increases their fame.
(d) Sends them into exile.

5. What is Nabokov's favorite Captain Mayne Reid novel?
(a) Johnny Appleseed.
(b) The Headless Horseman.
(c) Paul Bunyan.
(d) Bonnie and Clyde.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. His other brother, Sergey, is only a year younger than Nabokov. The two are raised together, but what makes them different?

3. Why does Nabokov feel exiled in Crimea, a Russian territory?

4. What country does the family travel through on their way to London?

5. Who is their first spelling tutor?

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