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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the purpose of the Constituent Assembly?
(a) Tries to limit the extent of Soviet control.
(b) To give power to the Soviets.
(c) To support the Soviets.
(d) To encourage Soviet control.
2. What puts Nabokov at odds with many of his colleagues?
(a) His desire to emigrate to the United States.
(b) His opinions of the state of affairs in his home country.
(c) His Russian accent.
(d) His inability to speak English.
3. Why does Sergey end up in a concentration camp?
(a) He is captured by the Nazis as a POW.
(b) He is Jewish.
(c) He humiliated a high-ranking official.
(d) Due to his outspoken opposition to the regime.
4. How does Nabokov describe the poet?
(a) A man he wishes to be.
(b) A man who can feel and interpret everything that is happening in any single moment.
(c) A man of simple words.
(d) A man who can describe any setting.
5. What is the subject of this chapter?
(a) Nabokov's uncle, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.
(b) Nabokov's father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.
(c) Nabokov's brother, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.
(d) Nabokov's tutor, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Vladimir elected to, which the Tsar dissolves?
2. What does Vladimir study at St. Petersburg University?
3. His other brother, Sergey, is only a year younger than Nabokov. The two are raised together, but what makes them different?
4. What is Nabokov's favorite Captain Mayne Reid novel?
5. What does the revolution do to most of the Russian writers and artists?
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