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