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

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

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

4. Who dies young of a heart ailment?
(a) A Ukrainian mathematician.
(b) The schoolmaster.
(c) A Polish tutor.
(d) A Greek spelling tutor.

5. What is the purpose of the Constituent Assembly?
(a) To support the Soviets.
(b) To give power to the Soviets.
(c) To encourage Soviet control.
(d) Tries to limit the extent of Soviet control.

Short Answer Questions

1. What types of tutors does Nabokov's father seem to intentionally choose?

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

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

4. Why does little Vladimir close his eyes at the bottom of each stairway?

5. Who is their first spelling tutor?

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