The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Quizzes

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Quiz 1

1 Where was Sebastian born?
Paris

Moscow

London

St. Petersburg
2 What does the narrator say was the immediate cause of Sebastian's and his father's death?
A cold.

Old age.

A heart attack.

A duel.
3 What aspect of their father does the narrator see in Sebastian's writing?
his passion for women

his perserverence

his impetious behavior

his restlessness
4 Where did Sebastian's father meet Sebastian's mother?
France

Italy

England

Russia
5 Virginia Knight abandoned her family because. . .
she knew she was dying and thought this would hurt them less.

Sebastian's father threw her out for being unfaithful.

she fell in love with another man.

she hated Sebastian's father.
6 What helped Sebastian's father forget his first wife?
He met the narrator's mother.

Going to war in Japan.

He never could forget her.

Sebastian.
7 After Virginia left her husband and son, she made her home
in Paris in the winter, Italy in the summer.

in a small town in France.

nowhere; she travelled constantly until she died.

in London.
8 When Virginia sent a note asking to see Sebastian, why did the narrator's mother take him?
She was curious to see her husband's first wife.

The narrator's mother wanted to keep the visit from her husband.

His father refused to see Virginia.

His father was away at the time.
9 Who attended Virginia Knight's burial?
Mr. Silbermann

Mr. Goodman

Sebastian

H.F. Stainton
10 Sebastian's father challenged Palchin to a duel, because Palchin. . .
was rude to him in the street.

spoke openly about being Virginia's lover.

insulted the narrator's mother.

accused him of being unfaithful to his wife.
11 The narrator does not understand his father's actions, because he does not understand why THIS did not prevent his father from risking his life in the duel.
Virginia's cruel behavior.

His sense of honor.

His happy marriage wiht the narrator's mother.

His love for his two children.
12 Mr. Goodman blames much of Sebastian's later trouble on his upbringing; specifically that
he was raised by a woman who was not his mother.

he was raised in Russia.

he lost his father at a young age.

he was forced to leave his homeland.
13 When they were boys, the narrator and Sebastian's relationship could be characterized as
troubled.

difficult.

warm and sympathetic.

cold.
14 Which of the the following did the narrator not find in Sebastian's locked drawer?
Violet sweets

A notebook of poems

a chess knight

a photograph
15 When Sebastian wrote poems as a boy, what language were they written in?
A mixture of English and Russian

Russian

English

French
16 Where did Sebastian's mother die?
Bluaberg

St. Denis

Paris

Roquebrune
17 The narrator does not want to use his imagination to fill in Sebastian's life, because he does not want the book to turn into a kind of . . .
farce

biographies romancees

myth

lie
18 Who was the first person that the narrator writes about visiting to learn about his brother?
The scholar from Crambridge

Mr. Goodman

Mademoiselle, their Swiss governess

Clare Bishop
19 The narrator is disappointed with his visit, because Mademoiselle doesn't seem interested in
Sebastian's adult life.

Sebastian's books.

his mother's death.

his life.
20 What caused Sebastian's family to flee from Russia?
They ran up large debts that they couldn't pay back

They feared arrest by an unfriendly government.

Their father's death.

They were fleeing the dangers of the Russian Revolution
21 The family started their escape by
catching a plane that would take them to Finland.

walking many miles to the border.

taking a droshkie to the border.

catching a train.
22 Who helped Sebastian with the luggage?
Captain Belov

Rosanov

the narrator

Palchin
23 Which of Sebastian's books is about a man who escaped from a tyrranous government?
Lost Property

Success

The Doubtful Asphodel

The Funny Mountain
24 Where did the narrator and his mother go, when they parted ways with Sebastian?
Marseilles

Paris

Finland

London
25 How many times did Sebastian visit the narrator and his mother in Paris?
never

many times

twice

once

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