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