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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 reveal about his mind?
(a) He always associates sounds with colors.
(b) He has depression.
(c) He has a great short-term memory.
(d) He hallucinates.

2. How does Nabokov describe the poet?
(a) A man who can feel and interpret everything that is happening in any single moment.
(b) A man of simple words.
(c) A man he wishes to be.
(d) A man who can describe any setting.

3. What is the subject of this chapter?
(a) Nabokov's tutor, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.
(b) Nabokov's father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.
(c) Nabokov's uncle, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.
(d) Nabokov's brother, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.

4. What does Nabokov mean when he says poetry is positional?
(a) It can come in many different forms.
(b) It is based on many people's views over a period of time.
(c) It will not change over time.
(d) It is a description of one human being's place in the universe at a precise moment in time.

5. What do Yuri and Nabokov invent?
(a) A weapon.
(b) A game.
(c) A way to distract siblings.
(d) A tool to make household chores easier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nabokov confess about Yuri and himself?

2. What does she tell him when he is finished reciting the poem?

3. What does the rain cause to grow on the estate?

4. Who are Miss Norcott and Miss Hunt?

5. Though many doubt this ailment, What happens to Ivanovich?

(see the answer key)

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