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