Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What properties do the Nabokovs own until the Russian revolution?
(a) Several large estates south of St. Petersburg.
(b) Several summer cottages on the Baltic Sea.
(c) A large estate in St. Petersburg.
(d) A large estate in Moscow.

2. What is young Vladimir's main concern?
(a) Whether or not he will be able to go horseback riding.
(b) Whether or not he can play in the forest.
(c) Whether or not he will be able to go hunting for new and rare butterflies.
(d) Whether or not he can play with his friends down the road.

3. Why does Nabokov's father force the family to leave a sidewalk cafe?
(a) The food is not edible.
(b) The wait staff is slow and untrained.
(c) His father sees an old acquaintance he would rather avoid.
(d) The father notices two Japanese officers dining at a nearby table.

4. Where do the children bathe?
(a) English portable tubs.
(b) Russian baths.
(c) French bathing tubs.
(d) The creek on the estate.

5. After his retirement, from what does Dimitri Nabokov begin to suffer?
(a) Heart disease.
(b) Arthritis.
(c) Dementia.
(d) Emphysema.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the rain cause to grow on the estate?

2. It is unusual for aristocrats in Russian to be hanged, and as a child, what does Nabokov call the trail through the woods on the estate where a previous owner had been hanged?

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

4. What does the butterfly net in particular always invite?

5. To what simple rule does Nabokov's mother ascribe?

(see the answer key)

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