Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Foreword and Chapter 1

1. What is the process by which Vladimir Nabokov writes "Speak, Memory?"

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

3. The rest of the chapters are published separately, mainly by whom?

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

5. How does Nabokov open his autobiography?

6. To what does Nabokov compare existence?

7. What is a battle against the yawning darkness?

8. What is the first memory Nabokov drags from the darkness?

9. What is memorable about this first memory?

10. What is one of his...
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