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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited | Quiz

Vladimir Nabokov
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1)

What is happening to the science of butterflies at this time? (from Chapter 6)

The Germans have made leaps and bounds in discoveries.
They have not found any new species.
It has not changed for decades.
There is a great unheaval.
2)

With what are Nabokov and Vyra fascinated? (from Chapter 15)

Their steamer to New York.
Their new son
Their new home.
Their new shop.
3)

How does the Nabokov family frequently travel from St. Petersburg to Paris? (from Chapter 7)

In the elegant brown Nord-Express train
By horse and carriage.
In a sleigh.
By stagecoach.
4)

With what is young Vladimir obsessed? (from Chapter 6)

Hunting wild animals on his family's estate.
Poetry.
Playing the piano with his father.
The science of butterflies and the thrill of the hunt.
5)

For whom is young Vladimir mistaken? (from Chapter 7)

A German boy.
A Swedish boy.
An English boy.
An American boy.
6)

How does Nabokov's father die? (from Chapter 9)

He has a heart attack in Paris.
He is assassinated in Berlin.
He has a stroke in Berlin.
He commits suicide in Paris.
7)

It is 5 a.m., and what has just happened? (from Chapter 15)

His father has just died.
He is returning home to Russia.
He and his family are boarding a steamer to New York.
Nabokov's wife, Vyra, has just given birth to their first child.
8)

Where do tours in these last few years in Europe culminate? (from Chapter 15)

In the Louvre for one last look at the Mona Lisa before emigrating to the United States.
In Big Ben, looking at the steamer that would take them to America.
In the garden that the family walks through on their way to the docks to board the liner Champlain.
His family's estate in Russia before turning it over to the government.
9)

What is the last Nabokov hears of Lenski? (from Chapter 8)

He is working as an actor in London.
He is a professor at the University of Paris.
He owns a restaurant in Dublin.
He is scrapping by, selling painted seashells on the Riviera in France.
10)

What does Nabokov's mother do on the trip to Paris? (from Chapter 7)

Talks to her husband.
Sleeps.
Watches as Russian, and then German, towns glide by.
Plays games with her children.
11)

What happens, when winter comes, to their love affair? (from Chapter 12)

It fades to nothing.
It comes out in the open.
It ends.
It has to endure a life of closer scrutiny.
12)

What does Nabokov remember about his father's remarkable writing ability? (from Chapter 9)

He could write sentence after sentence without correction.
He has beautiful handwriting.
He is very poetic.
He could spell any word.
13)

What does this thriving upper-class tourist industry offer? (from Chapter 7)

Gambling, live theatre, and music.
Vendors lining the beach and even servants in the change huts to assist in the removal of bathing suits.
Live performances, pubs and restaurants, and bicycles to rent.
Expensive restaurants, street vendors, and swimming lessons.
14)

What makes becoming a Russian novelist an uphill battle for Nabokov at Cambridge? (from Chapter 13)

The pull toward Western literature is strong.
He is not a great writer.
He does not know of very many Russian writers.
He does not speak Russian very well.
15)

In any of the memories he has from before his obsession began, Nabokov cannot recall the presence of butterflies. What can he recall afterward? (from Chapter 6)

He is constantly finding new species.
Not very many butterflies, because most Russian varieties are extinct.
He cannot find nearly as many butterflies as he thought he would.
He cannot remember the outdoors without them.
16)

What does she tell him when he is finished reciting the poem? (from Chapter 11)

She proclaims it wonderful and beyond compare.
Studying butterflies is a better way to spend one's day.
He should find another hobby.
He should have it published.
17)

What puts Nabokov at odds with many of his colleagues? (from Chapter 13)

His opinions of the state of affairs in his home country.
His Russian accent.
His inability to speak English.
His desire to emigrate to the United States.
18)

Who is he surprised to see on stage as "The Gala Girls?" (from Chapter 10)

Girls from the local village.
His mother and his sisters.
The American girls from the skating rink.
Colette and her friends.
19)

How would Nabokov spend hours? (from Chapter 14)

Playing lawn tennis.
With a chess board in front of him.
Chasing butterflies.
Writing poetry.
20)

How does Nabokov describe these final years in Europe? (from Chapter 15)

As a tour of the best museums in the world.
As a tour of parks and gardens.
As a tour of what is most-loved in Europe.
As a tour of my homeland, Russia.
21)

Though he is an excellent teacher to the Nabokov boys, what does Lenski find difficult? (from Chapter 8)

Making his lessons interesting.
Teaching the boys to be well-behaved.
Teaching the boys mathematics.
His own studies.
22)

What does he do with a poem before he writes it down? (from Chapter 11)

He contructs it entirely in his head.
He reads the poem to his mother.
He writes it on a chalkboard.
He discusses his ideas with his father.
23)

What is Vladimir elected to, which the Tsar dissolves? (from Chapter 9)

Russian House of Burgesses.
First Russian Senate.
First Russian Parliament.
Russian Congress.
24)

Why does she hand him a hand mirror? (from Chapter 11)

He has grown so much.
His face is covered in dirt.
He had smashed a mosquito on his cheek.
He has a cut on his forehead.
25)

Why is he detained briefly in 1918, by a Bolshevik soldier? (from Chapter 6)

He is accused him of signaling British warships with his net.
He is evading the draft.
He is trying to escape the country.
He has run away from the Red Army.
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