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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lett punish the boys?
(a) By telling their parents.
(b) By having them sit facing a corner.
(c) By forcing them to spar with him in the boxing ring.
(d) By giving them chores to do.

2. What tutor looks like the French actor Max Linder?
(a) A graduate student.
(b) A Russian literature tutor.
(c) A Greek spelling teacher.
(d) A polish medical student.

3. How does Sergei save the brothers from the Bolsheviks on the train?
(a) He convinces the Bolsheviks that he has leprosy.
(b) He holds them out a window.
(c) He shoots at the Bolsheviks.
(d) He convinces them he has typhus and that is why they are traveling alone in a locked compartment.

4. What does Nabokov learn to read and write before Russian or French?
(a) Swedish.
(b) German.
(c) Dutch.
(d) English.

5. Who does Nabokov meet at the age of sixteen?
(a) His cousin, Yuri.
(b) A young girl named Tamara.
(c) His youngest brother.
(d) A young girl named Colette.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Max endear himself to the dogs?

2. What are two events that Nabokov remembers watching outside his mother's window?

3. What is the last Nabokov hears of Lenski?

4. With what is the aristocratic Nabokov house stocked?

5. Why does Nabokov have secret spots?

(see the answer key)

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