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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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Playing the piano with his father.
Poetry.
The science of butterflies and the thrill of the hunt.
Hunting wild animals on his family's estate.
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 is assassinated in Berlin.
He has a heart attack in Paris.
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)

Nabokov's wife, Vyra, has just given birth to their first child.
He is returning home to Russia.
He and his family are boarding a steamer to New York.
His father has just died.
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 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.
In Big Ben, looking at the steamer that would take them to America.
9)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Live performances, pubs and restaurants, and bicycles to rent.
Gambling, live theatre, and music.
Expensive restaurants, street vendors, and swimming lessons.
Vendors lining the beach and even servants in the change huts to assist in the removal of bathing suits.
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 cannot find nearly as many butterflies as he thought he would.
He is constantly finding new species.
Not very many butterflies, because most Russian varieties are extinct.
He cannot remember the outdoors without them.
16)

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

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

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

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

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

The American girls from the skating rink.
Colette and her friends.
His mother and his sisters.
Girls from the local village.
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 what is most-loved in Europe.
As a tour of my homeland, Russia.
As a tour of parks and gardens.
21)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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