Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where is the family returning to Russia?
(a) A summer in France.
(b) Almost an entire year abroad.
(c) A winter in Greece.
(d) An autumn in London.

2. How many years does Mademoiselle spend with the family?
(a) Two
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Seventeen.

3. From where does Mademoiselle come?
(a) Denmark.
(b) France.
(c) Africa.
(d) Switzerland.

4. To what simple rule does Nabokov's mother ascribe?
(a) Love with all your soul and leave the rest to fate.
(b) Be honest and things will go your way.
(c) Follow the Golden Rule.
(d) Love your neighbors as yourself.

5. What mystifies the two boys about Mademoiselle?
(a)
(b) She reads many novels to the boys, all in French, with a smooth, gentle voice.
(c) She is kind most of the timea but can easily lose her temper.
(d) She has children that visit her once a month, but she never allows the two boys to play with her children.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Nabokov compare existence?

2. This chapter is the first recorded work, published in French in 1936, under the name "Mademoiselle O."

3. What is the common name for Boletusoften?

4. With what is the aristocratic Nabokov house stocked?

5. What does Nabokov claim stems more from an ecological longing for the place of his birth, than in his family's loss of property and station?

(see the answer key)

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