Ada; or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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Ada; or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 119 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Over the thirteen years preceding Aqua's death, how much does Van calculate that he's spent with her?

2. What does Ada think of telling Lucette, to get her to leave Van alone?

3. Who is the chaperone when Van visits Ada at school?

4. Does Van talk to Ada before he leaves?

5. Where does Marina have breakfast?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ada say lions do when they eat a person?

2. How does Van circumvent the rules about what Ada is supposed to read from the library?

3. How does Lucette want to draw flowers, when her sister is trying to teach her to draw?

4. What do Demon think of Marina's career as an actress?

5. How does Marina describe Jews to her daughter?

6. What becomes of Ada's old governess?

7. What are the rules of marriage among relatives that Van and Ada discuss?

8. What are the circumstances of Marina's first romantic liaison with Demon?

9. What does Van do, when Ada suggests he spank Lucette?

10. How does Van first see Ada?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Nabokov is known for wordplay, and part of this is using significant names or manipulating names. Discuss the names of characters and places in the novel.

1) What meanings are put onto the characters' names by their association with other words? For example, what do Demon, Aqua, and Marina's names mean? What meanings are put on "Ada" and "Van"?

2) Discuss the name of Ardis Hall and what meanings and associations it has in the novel.

3) How do characters' names change in different contexts? What do these name changes signify?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the structure of the novel.

1) What role does each of the five parts of the novel play? How does each represent a specific period in the relationship of Ada and Van, and how are those periods different from each other?

2) Why is the first book the longest? Why is the fourth book a single chapter?

3) In what ways is the structure chronological? How and why does it break out of chronological order?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the novel's portrayal of men and women.

1) How are men and women's experience of sexuality different in the novel? How are they treated differently by society?

2) What does success mean for men and women in the novel? How is it different because of gender?

3) What are men and women's intellectual pursuits in the novel? How are they different because of gender?

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