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