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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 Nabokov's mother do on the trip to Paris?
(a) Watches as Russian, and then German, towns glide by.
(b) Talks to her husband.
(c) Plays games with her children.
(d) Sleeps.

2. How many years does Mademoiselle spend with the family?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Two
(d) Seventeen.

3. Why is Nabokov disappointed to hear that one of his tutors marries a peasant girl?
(a) He thinks of his tutors as people devoted to their art or profession.
(b) He thinks he should have married one of his sisters.
(c) He thinks he should have married someone in a higher social class.
(d) He thinks he should have married his aunt.

4. When do they arrive in Paris?
(a) In the middle of the night.
(b) Early afternoon.
(c) Early morning.
(d) Late afternoon.

5. What does Vladimir study at St. Petersburg University?
(a) Art.
(b) Music.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Law.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is referred to simply as "Mademoiselle?"

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

3. What is the subject of this chapter?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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