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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does young Nabokov's status as a child of the intelligentsia often do to him?
(a) It isolates him from his fellow students
(b) It makes him stand out in a crowd.
(c) He receives many compliments.
(d) It encourages him to make friends.

2. What is Nabokov's favorite medium?
(a) Oils.
(b) Drawing.
(c) Watercolors.
(d) Clay.

3. How does the family spend their time in this town?
(a) Shopping.
(b) Mountain climbing.
(c) On a boat.
(d) On the beach.

4. To whom is Chapter Five devoted?
(a) Nabokov's mother.
(b) Nabokov's wife.
(c) Nabokov's governess.
(d) Nabokov's father.

5. What would change throughout Nabokov's childhood, depending on the prevailing advice of the family's current medical consultant?
(a) The temperature in his home.
(b) The medicines his mother uses.
(c) How much he exercises.
(d) The temperature of the bath water.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mademoiselle provide Vladimir with an extra hour or two out of the darkness?

2. How do the aristocrats confront the ocean waves?

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

4. Mademoiselle threatens several times to leave. Why does she end up staying?

5. Soon, the string of nurses transforms into what?

(see the answer key)

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