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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Nabokov confess about Yuri and himself?
(a) They know nothing about America.
(b) They wish they had girlfriends.
(c) The devastation of war is new to them.
(d) The "slums of sex" were unknown to both of them.

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

4. Who is their first spelling tutor?
(a) Dmitri.
(b) Ordo.
(c) Oliver.
(d) Max.

5. Of what descent is Nabokov's mother?
(a) Aristocratic German descent.
(b) Aristocratic Swedish descent.
(c) Aristocratic English descent.
(d) Aristocratic Norwegian descent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is their mother's reaction when she sees that her children have opened the presents from their stockings early and poorly rewrapped them?

2. What does Nabokov's mother do on the trip to Paris?

3. To what is Nabokov's mother quite sensitive?

4. What are two events that Nabokov remembers watching outside his mother's window?

5. How does Mr. Cummings influence Nabokov's scientific drawings of butterflies?

(see the answer key)

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