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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nabokov confess about Yuri and himself?

2. What is Lenski's idea for the use of Magic-Lantern Projections?

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

4. What is a crippling experience for him?

5. What does Nabokov say they had lost that winter in St. Petersburg?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Nabokov's family is exiled from Russia.

Part 1) Why?

Part 2) How is Nabokov's life is Western Europe?

Part 3) Although, Nabokov says his anger towards the Bolsheviks is due to his loss of country, how might his loss of wealth and status affect him?

Essay Topic 2

Nabokov lives a bourgeois, aristocratic life.

Part 1) What evidence from the text suggests this?

Part 2) When and why does this lifestyle end?

Part 3) How does Nabokov handle this change in lifestyle?

Essay Topic 3

Lenski is one of the more significant tutors in Nabokov's teen years?

Part 1) What is Nobakov's opinion of Lenski?

Part 2) What does Lenski try to give both the boys and their father?

Part 3) How do the boys react to their education from Lenski? How might this information be useful to them in later years?

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