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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is publication like outside of Russia?
(a) Not as good as in Russia.
(b) A well-paying, satisfying career.
(c) Often insufficiently lucrative to provide a comfortable existence.
(d) Better than in the United States.

3. In 1904, who does Nabokov remember meeting for the first time?
(a) His sister.
(b) His cousin.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His youngest brother.

4. Vladimir is raised by his own share of governesses and tutors but where does he go at the age of 13?
(a) Berkshire Boys Academy.
(b) Poly Preparatory.
(c) The Gymnasium.
(d) St. Petersburg Academy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lett punish the boys?

2. To whom does Nabokov feel the strongest bond of kinship?

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

4. Why does Nabokov ride his bike each afternoon past the house of the family's head coachmen?

5. What fills Nabokov with surprise, while roller-skating?

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