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  What is the name of the New England town where the Haze family lives in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita? see if you know the answer
Answered: 1859 times
Correct: 985 times (35.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 874 times (31.9%)
Skipped: 883 times (32.2%)
  Who is the eccentric narrator of Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire? see if you know the answer
Answered: 414 times
Correct: 277 times (35.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 137 times (17.5%)
Skipped: 370 times (47.2%)
  Nabokov's Lolita married and settled down in: see if you know the answer
Answered: 603 times
Correct: 102 times (12.7%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 501 times (62.2%)
Skipped: 203 times (25.2%)
  In 1944 Nabokov wrote a study of: see if you know the answer
Answered: 121 times
Correct: 36 times (14.9%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 85 times (35.3%)
Skipped: 120 times (49.8%)
  Nabokov’s "chess novel" is:
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Answered: 150 times
Correct: 110 times (43.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 40 times (15.6%)
Skipped: 106 times (41.4%)
  Vladimir Nabokov’s second novel King, Queen, Knave is a self-reflexive satirical version of: see if you know the answer
Answered: 92 times
Correct: 43 times (22.5%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 49 times (25.7%)
Skipped: 99 times (51.8%)
  The first novel Nabokov wrote in America is: see if you know the answer
Answered: 99 times
Correct: 30 times (12.9%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 69 times (29.6%)
Skipped: 134 times (57.5%)
  In The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov the protagonist researches: see if you know the answer
Answered: 38 times
Correct: 13 times (24.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 25 times (46.3%)
Skipped: 16 times (29.6%)
  Nabokov’s short story Ultima Thule from the collection A Russian Beauty includes the character of Mr. Falter, who claims to know:
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Answered: 30 times
Correct: 17 times (34.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 13 times (26.0%)
Skipped: 20 times (40.0%)
  In which Nabokov novel would you find Martin Edelweiss? see if you know the answer
Answered: 93 times
Correct: 40 times (16.9%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 53 times (22.5%)
Skipped: 143 times (60.6%)
  In which Nabokov novel would you find Marina Durmanov? see if you know the answer
Answered: 91 times
Correct: 44 times (18.9%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 47 times (20.2%)
Skipped: 142 times (60.9%)
  In which Nabokov novel would you find Luzhin? see if you know the answer
Answered: 95 times
Correct: 49 times (21.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 46 times (20.0%)
Skipped: 135 times (58.7%)
  Which earlier Nabokov novel prefigures his Lolita? see if you know the answer
Answered: 107 times
Correct: 35 times (17.6%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 72 times (36.2%)
Skipped: 92 times (46.2%)
  Nabokov's Dr. Charles Kinbote claims to come from the kingdom of: see if you know the answer
Answered: 79 times
Correct: 27 times (14.8%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 52 times (28.4%)
Skipped: 104 times (56.8%)
  In the novel <i>Ada, or Ardor by Nabokov, Ada’s younger sister Lucette: see if you know the answer
Answered: 52 times
Correct: 36 times (50.7%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 16 times (22.5%)
Skipped: 19 times (26.8%)
  Novelist Vladimir Nabokov was known to see if you know the answer
Answered: 216 times
Correct: 160 times (49.8%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 56 times (17.4%)
Skipped: 105 times (32.7%)
  Nabokov liked to write his fiction on see if you know the answer
Answered: 103 times
Correct: 35 times (19.4%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 68 times (37.8%)
Skipped: 77 times (42.8%)
  Adam Krug was a character in which Nabokov novel? see if you know the answer
Answered: 93 times
Correct: 28 times (11.9%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 65 times (27.5%)
Skipped: 143 times (60.6%)
  In which Nabokov novel would you find Liza Bogoepov? see if you know the answer
Answered: 78 times
Correct: 35 times (15.9%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 43 times (19.5%)
Skipped: 142 times (64.5%)
  In which Nabokov novel would you find Albinus? see if you know the answer
Answered: 84 times
Correct: 28 times (12.4%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 56 times (24.8%)
Skipped: 142 times (62.8%)
  On which of the following topics did Vladimir Nabokov and his epistolary companion, Edmund Wilson, not debate?

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Answered: 35 times
Correct: 9 times (16.7%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 26 times (48.1%)
Skipped: 19 times (35.2%)
  Vladimir Nabokov and his wife claimed to have shared a sense of:
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Answered: 159 times
Correct: 97 times (37.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 62 times (23.8%)
Skipped: 102 times (39.1%)
  In Russia Vladimir Nabokov wrote under the pseudonym of see if you know the answer
Answered: 103 times
Correct: 42 times (18.3%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 61 times (26.6%)
Skipped: 126 times (55.0%)
  At which of the following universities did Vladimir Nabokov not hold a teaching position?
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Answered: 32 times
Correct: 6 times (12.0%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 26 times (52.0%)
Skipped: 18 times (36.0%)
  Vladimir Nabokov met his wife Véra at: see if you know the answer
Answered: 112 times
Correct: 34 times (14.1%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 78 times (32.4%)
Skipped: 129 times (53.5%)
  John Shade is a character in which Nabokov novel? see if you know the answer
Answered: 101 times
Correct: 54 times (22.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 47 times (19.9%)
Skipped: 135 times (57.2%)
  In which Nabokov novel would you find Kurt Dreyer? see if you know the answer
Answered: 84 times
Correct: 33 times (14.9%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 51 times (23.0%)
Skipped: 138 times (62.2%)
  What colorful objects did young Vladimir Nabokov play with? see if you know the answer
Answered: 125 times
Correct: 25 times (9.8%)
Difficulty: really really difficult
Incorrect: 100 times (39.2%)
Skipped: 130 times (51.0%)
  What was the name of Vladimir Nabokov's wife?
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Answered: 311 times
Correct: 151 times (22.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 160 times (23.6%)
Skipped: 366 times (54.1%)
  What did Vladimir Nabokov like to draw?
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Answered: 321 times
Correct: 234 times (35.5%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 87 times (13.2%)
Skipped: 339 times (51.4%)
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