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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who dies young of a heart ailment?
(a) A Polish tutor.
(b) The schoolmaster.
(c) A Ukrainian mathematician.
(d) A Greek spelling tutor.

2. What types of tutors does Nabokov's father seem to intentionally choose?
(a) Those who attend college at Cambridge.
(b) Those with experience working with aristocrat's children.
(c) Tutors with widely varying backgrounds and subjects of expertise.
(d) Tutors with a background in Russian literature.

3. What is happening in the larger cities of Western Europe?
(a) They are unhappy about the number of Russians.
(b) They are not allowing Russians to immigrate to their countries.
(c) Russian writers and artists have a considerable presence.
(d) They are losing Russian immigrants.

4. Who does Nabokov meet at the age of sixteen?
(a) His youngest brother.
(b) His cousin, Yuri.
(c) A young girl named Tamara.
(d) A young girl named Colette.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many children do the Nabokovs eventually have?

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

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

5. What does Nabokov remember about his father's remarkable writing ability?

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