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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Vladimir elected to, which the Tsar dissolves?
(a) First Russian Parliament.
(b) Russian House of Burgesses.
(c) First Russian Senate.
(d) Russian Congress.

2. Who occupies one of the estates near St. Petersburg when not abroad?
(a) Vyra, Nabokov's wife.
(b) Nabokov's cousin, Yuri.
(c) Nabokov's uncle, Vasiliy Ivanovich.
(d) Nabokov's father, Dmitri.

3. Of what are Nabokov's memories in a Russian setting?
(a) A quite Russian childhood.
(b) A quite French childhood.
(c) A quite English childhood.
(d) A quite German childhood.

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

5. In exile in America, when a ranger or marshal spots him traipsing into the backwoods, net in hand, what is he asked?
(a) What he is doing in the woods.
(b) Where his guide is.
(c) If he has a fishing license.
(d) What the net is for.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does he describe with obvious revelry?

2. What is happening in the larger cities of Western Europe?

3. What properties do the Nabokovs own until the Russian revolution?

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

5. Why does she hand him a hand mirror?

(see the answer key)

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