- 1. In which country was Vladimir Nabokov born?
A) United States
B) Russia
C) Germany
D) France
- 2. What was the first novel written by Vladimir Nabokov?
A) Lolita
B) Mary
C) Despair
D) The Defense
- 3. Which novel by Vladimir Nabokov is considered one of the greatest works in 20th-century literature?
A) Lolita
B) Pale Fire
C) Pnin
D) Ada
- 4. What is the title of Vladimir Nabokov's autobiography?
A) Glory
B) Look at the Harlequins!
C) Bend Sinister
D) Speak, Memory
- 5. In Nabokov's novel 'Pale Fire', what is the name of the narrator and protagonist?
A) John Shade
B) Humbert Humbert
C) Charles Kinbote
D) Clare Quilty
- 6. Vladimir Nabokov was a prominent lepidopterist, a person who studies what?
A) Reptiles
B) Birds
C) Fish
D) Butterflies
- 7. What is the famous opening line of Vladimir Nabokov's novel 'Lolita'?
A) I want to tell you about a remarkable man.
B) Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus.
C) Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
D) I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man.
- 8. Which novel by Vladimir Nabokov is a fictional autobiography of a gifted chess player?
A) King, Queen, Knave
B) Bend Sinister
C) Invitation to a Beheading
D) The Defense
- 9. What is the title of Nabokov's final, unfinished novel published posthumously in 2009?
A) The Original of Laura
B) Transparent Things
C) Laughter in the Dark
D) Ada
- 10. In which American university did Vladimir Nabokov teach Russian and European literature?
A) Harvard University
B) Yale University
C) Stanford University
D) Cornell University
- 11. What is the name of the protagonist in Nabokov's novel 'Ada'?
A) Shade
B) Van Veen
C) Kinbote
D) Humbert Humbert
- 12. What pen name did Vladimir Nabokov use when publishing his first poems and stories?
A) Sirin
B) Cheshire
C) Vagabond
D) Véra Nabokov
- 13. In Nabokov's novel 'Pnin', the title character is a professor of what subject?
A) Physics
B) History
C) Philosophy
D) Russian Literature
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