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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long does the family stay in Paris?
(a) One week.
(b) One month.
(c) Six months.
(d) One night.

3. What is the first memory Nabokov drags from the darkness?
(a) Going on a picnic with his mother and father.
(b) Playing in the yard on the estate.
(c) Holding hands with his mother and father, as the three of them walk along a garden path in 1903,
(d) Being fed by his nanny.

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

5. In any of the memories he has from before his obsession began, Nabokov cannot recall the presence of butterflies. What can he recall afterward?
(a) He is constantly finding new species.
(b) He cannot find nearly as many butterflies as he thought he would.
(c) Not very many butterflies, because most Russian varieties are extinct.
(d) He cannot remember the outdoors without them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children do the Nabokovs eventually have?

2. What does Vladimir do before hurrying young Nabokov along to school?

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

4. Why does she hand him a hand mirror?

5. How does Mr. Cummings influence Nabokov's scientific drawings of butterflies?

(see the answer key)

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