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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ada think of Van's change in weight?
(a) She likes that he's grown skinny.
(b) She likes that there's more of him.
(c) She dislikes that he's grown fat.
(d) She thinks he's so skinny, he'll fade away.

2. Who is Mr. Gromwell?
(a) Demon's business partner.
(b) Van's lawyer.
(c) Lucette's doctor.
(d) Ada's lover.

3. How long does Van tell Demon his affair with Ada has been going on?
(a) Nine years.
(b) Three years.
(c) Twelve years.
(d) Six years.

4. What does Dorothy come to believe about Van?
(a) That he's helping Ada arrange to meet a lover.
(b) That he's helping Ada meet a divorce lawyer.
(c) That he's secretly in love with Dorothy.
(d) That he's Ada's lover.

5. Which of the following is NOT the name of one of Van's books?
(a) Furnished Space.
(b) Terransmigration.
(c) Clairvoyerism.
(d) The Texture of Time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Van's earliest memory?

2. What was Van's first novel called?

3. To what drink does Van attribute his boyish look?

4. What does Van think about the relativistic idea of space-time?

5. What names does Nabokov use for the world of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the reviews of Van's first book like?

2. What exercise in memory does Van attempt, which he also gives to his patients?

3. How does Van remember his three farewell lectures on Bergson's Time?

4. What does Ada's letter say she will do if Van doesn't allow her to come live with him?

5. What is Van's opinion of acting?

6. How does Demon discover that Van is living with Ada?

7. What plan does Lucette propose to Van?

8. What does Van write about in his unsent letter to Ada?

9. What does Van give to Lucette in exchange for the name of the man who wants to marry her?

10. How does Van gain the post of Rattner Chair of Philosophy at University of Kingston?

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