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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do they hire the village schoolmaster, though he is not technically one of the family's regular tutors?
(a) To give them mathematics lessons.
(b) To give them writing lessons.
(c) To give them a crash course in the Russian language.
(d) To give them French lessons.

3. How does Nabokov open his autobiography?
(a) With a short meditation on the periods of inexistence before birth and after death.
(b) With a short review of Russian history.
(c) With an examination of his early childhood.
(d) With a short story about the birth of his son.

4. How does Nabokov's father die?
(a) He is assassinated in Berlin.
(b) He has a heart attack in Paris.
(c) He has a stroke in Berlin.
(d) He commits suicide in Paris.

5. What has Nabokov always had difficulty doing?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Writing.
(c) Eating.
(d) Speaking in public.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Nabokov compare existence?

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

3. In 1910, what do the Nabokov brothers acquire?

4. What earns Vladimir several rebukes from the Tsarist government?

5. What does Young Vladimir discover in the family's attic?

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