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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does Nabokov feel the strongest bond of kinship?
(a) His father's maternal grandfather, Nikolay Illarionovich Kozlov.
(b) His mother's paternal grandfather, Nikolay Illarionovich Kozlov.
(c) His father's paternal grandfather, Nikolay Illarionovich Kozlov.
(d) His mother's maternal grandfather, Nikolay Illarionovich Kozlov.

2. What does Nabokov investigate about his family?
(a) Their relationship to the tsar.
(b) The family's coat of arms.
(c) Their country of origin.
(d) Their religion.

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

4. What is a battle against the yawning darkness?
(a) Love.
(b) Autobiography.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Religion.

5. Of what are Nabokov's memories in a Russian setting?
(a) A quite English childhood.
(b) A quite French childhood.
(c) A quite German childhood.
(d) A quite Russian childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is memorable about this first memory?

2. What game does the whole family often play on the estate?

3. Why is Nabokov disappointed to hear that one of his tutors marries a peasant girl?

4. Why does little Vladimir close his eyes at the bottom of each stairway?

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

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