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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Nabokov disappointed to hear that one of his tutors marries a peasant girl?
(a) He thinks he should have married one of his sisters.
(b) He thinks of his tutors as people devoted to their art or profession.
(c) He thinks he should have married someone in a higher social class.
(d) He thinks he should have married his aunt.

3. What is Lenski's idea for the use of Magic-Lantern Projections?
(a) To create special effects on the wall.
(b) To create shadow puppets.
(c) To play in the light from the lanterns.
(d) To illustrate petic works with the use of slides.

4. What does Nabokov say they had lost that winter in St. Petersburg?
(a) Their "true identities."
(b) Their "secret hideaway."
(c) Their "lovers' nest."
(d) Their "sylvan security."

5. Where do the children bathe?
(a) English portable tubs.
(b) Russian baths.
(c) French bathing tubs.
(d) The creek on the estate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the relationship fizzle out?

2. What tutor looks like the French actor Max Linder?

3. How does Lett punish the boys?

4. Who does Nabokov meet at the age of sixteen?

5. What is Nabokov's favorite medium?

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