- 1. In which country was Vladimir Nabokov born?
A) United States
B) France
C) Russia
D) Germany
- 2. What was the first novel written by Vladimir Nabokov?
A) Lolita
B) Mary
C) Despair
D) The Defense
- 3. Which novel by Vladimir Nabokov is considered one of the greatest works in 20th-century literature?
A) Pale Fire
B) Ada
C) Pnin
D) Lolita
- 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) Philosophy
B) History
C) Russian Literature
D) Physics
- 7. What is the name of the protagonist in Nabokov's novel 'Ada'?
A) Kinbote
B) Humbert Humbert
C) Van Veen
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) Fish
B) Butterflies
C) Birds
D) Reptiles
- 10. In which American university did Vladimir Nabokov teach Russian and European literature?
A) Cornell University
B) Yale University
C) Harvard University
D) Stanford University
- 11. What pen name did Vladimir Nabokov use when publishing his first poems and stories?
A) Cheshire
B) Vagabond
C) Véra Nabokov
D) Sirin
- 12. Which novel by Vladimir Nabokov is a fictional autobiography of a gifted chess player?
A) The Defense
B) King, Queen, Knave
C) Bend Sinister
D) Invitation to a Beheading
- 13. What is the famous opening line of Vladimir Nabokov's novel 'Lolita'?
A) Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus.
B) I want to tell you about a remarkable man.
C) I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man.
D) Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
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