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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What properties do the Nabokovs own until the Russian revolution?
(a) Several large estates south of St. Petersburg.
(b) Several summer cottages on the Baltic Sea.
(c) A large estate in Moscow.
(d) A large estate in St. Petersburg.

2. To what is Nabokov's mother quite sensitive?
(a) Perfume.
(b) Insults.
(c) Seemingly small events.
(d) Insect bites.

3. Why does Nabokov ride his bike each afternoon past the house of the family's head coachmen?
(a) He wants to see his prize stallion.
(b) He wants to learn how to drive a coach.
(c) The coachman's daughter, Polenka, watches him ride by.
(d) He needs to apologize to the coachman.

4. Why is Lenski working as a tutor?
(a) To put himself through graduate school at the University in St. Petersburg.
(b) He is paying off a debt to Nabokov's father.
(c) He loves teaching children.
(d) To put his son through undergraduate school at Cambridge.

5. What is young Vladimir's main concern?
(a) Whether or not he will be able to go horseback riding.
(b) Whether or not he can play with his friends down the road.
(c) Whether or not he can play in the forest.
(d) Whether or not he will be able to go hunting for new and rare butterflies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nabokov's favorite Captain Mayne Reid novel?

2. What happens to Yuri in northern Crimea?

3. How long does the family stay in Paris?

4. Who occupies one of the estates near St. Petersburg when not abroad?

5. Why does Nabokov's mother often wander the estate's forest?

(see the answer key)

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