The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Quizzes

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Quiz 1

By China Millman · Edited by W.C. Miller · Last reviewed January 08, 2007

1 Where was Sebastian born?

London

Paris

Moscow

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

Old age.

A cold.

A heart attack.

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

his impetious behavior

his passion for women

his restlessness

his perserverence
4 Where did Sebastian's father meet Sebastian's mother?

France

England

Italy

Russia
5 Virginia Knight abandoned her family because. . .

Sebastian's father threw her out for being unfaithful.

she hated Sebastian's father.

she knew she was dying and thought this would hurt them less.

she fell in love with another man.
6 What helped Sebastian's father forget his first wife?

Sebastian.

He met the narrator's mother.

Going to war in Japan.

He never could forget her.
7 After Virginia left her husband and son, she made her home

in Paris in the winter, Italy in the summer.

in London.

nowhere; she travelled constantly until she died.

in a small town in France.
8 When Virginia sent a note asking to see Sebastian, why did the narrator's mother take him?

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

She was curious to see her husband's first wife.

His father was away at the time.

His father refused to see Virginia.
9 Who attended Virginia Knight's burial?

Mr. Silbermann

Mr. Goodman

H.F. Stainton

Sebastian
10 Sebastian's father challenged Palchin to a duel, because Palchin. . .

spoke openly about being Virginia's lover.

insulted the narrator's mother.

was rude to him in the street.

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.

His sense of honor.

His happy marriage wiht the narrator's mother.

His love for his two children.

Virginia's cruel behavior.
12 Mr. Goodman blames much of Sebastian's later trouble on his upbringing; specifically that

he was forced to leave his homeland.

he lost his father at a young age.

he was raised by a woman who was not his mother.

he was raised in Russia.
13 When they were boys, the narrator and Sebastian's relationship could be characterized as

troubled.

cold.

difficult.

warm and sympathetic.
14 Which of the the following did the narrator not find in Sebastian's locked drawer?

A notebook of poems

a chess knight

Violet sweets

a photograph
15 When Sebastian wrote poems as a boy, what language were they written in?

A mixture of English and Russian

French

Russian

English
16 Where did Sebastian's mother die?

St. Denis

Roquebrune

Paris

Bluaberg
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 . . .

lie

myth

biographies romancees

farce
18 Who was the first person that the narrator writes about visiting to learn about his brother?

The scholar from Crambridge

Mademoiselle, their Swiss governess

Clare Bishop

Mr. Goodman
19 The narrator is disappointed with his visit, because Mademoiselle doesn't seem interested in

his life.

Sebastian's adult life.

his mother's death.

Sebastian's books.
20 What caused Sebastian's family to flee from Russia?

They feared arrest by an unfriendly government.

They were fleeing the dangers of the Russian Revolution

Their father's death.

They ran up large debts that they couldn't pay back
21 The family started their escape by

taking a droshkie to the border.

catching a train.

walking many miles to the border.

catching a plane that would take them to Finland.
22 Who helped Sebastian with the luggage?

the narrator

Rosanov

Captain Belov

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

The Funny Mountain

The Doubtful Asphodel

Success

Lost Property
24 Where did the narrator and his mother go, when they parted ways with Sebastian?

Paris

London

Marseilles

Finland
25 How many times did Sebastian visit the narrator and his mother in Paris?

once

twice

never

many times

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