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