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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is memorable about this first memory?
(a) He wonders where his parents are.
(b) He understands that he is a separate being from his father and mother.
(c) He understands that everyone must eat.
(d) He realizes he has the ability to control his own body.

2. How does the family spend their time in this town?
(a) Mountain climbing.
(b) On a boat.
(c) On the beach.
(d) Shopping.

3. How does she respond to his poem?
(a) She does not think it is very good.
(b) She sits patiently and then asks a lot of questions.
(c) She sits listening with tears in her eyes.
(d) She is hardly paying attention to the poem.

4. Why is Lenski working as a tutor?
(a) He is paying off a debt to Nabokov's father.
(b) To put his son through undergraduate school at Cambridge.
(c) He loves teaching children.
(d) To put himself through graduate school at the University in St. Petersburg.

5. What are two events that Nabokov remembers watching outside his mother's window?
(a) The training of horses and the revolutionary action in the street.
(b) Mr. Burness' arrival and the revolutionary action in the street.
(c) The training of horses and the village children on their way to school.
(d) Mr. Burness' arrival nad the village children on their way to school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nabokov call the process of using both the English and Russian translations of "Speak, Memory" to shape the current work?

2. Why does Vasiliy insist upon lying supine on the floor?

3. What is happening to the science of butterflies at this time?

4. When does his first poem take shape in his mind?

5. Of what descent is Nabokov's mother?

(see the answer key)

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