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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Vasiliy insist upon lying supine on the floor?
(a) He claims it stretches out his spine.
(b) He claims it improves his posture.
(c) He claims it helps him breathe better.
(d) He claims it relieves his chest pains.

2. Who is referred to simply as "Mademoiselle?"
(a) His aunt.
(b) The governess.
(c) The tutor.
(d) His sister.

3. 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) The training of horses and the village children on their way to school.
(c) Mr. Burness' arrival and the revolutionary action in the street.
(d) Mr. Burness' arrival nad the village children on their way to school.

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

5. What mystifies the two boys about Mademoiselle?
(a) She reads many novels to the boys, all in French, with a smooth, gentle voice.
(b) She is kind most of the timea but can easily lose her temper.
(c)
(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. What is one of his other memories?

2. Why is he detained briefly in 1918, by a Bolshevik soldier?

3. Soon, the string of nurses transforms into what?

4. Where does Nabokov's mother trick Dimitri into believing he is still?

5. When does Nabokov eventually discover a new species?

(see the answer key)

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