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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What game does the whole family often play on the estate?
(a) Badmitton.
(b) Lawn tennis.
(c) Lawn bowling.
(d) Rounders.

2. What is memorable about this first memory?
(a) He understands that he is a separate being from his father and mother.
(b) He wonders where his parents are.
(c) He realizes he has the ability to control his own body.
(d) He understands that everyone must eat.

3. What does Nabokov claim stems more from an ecological longing for the place of his birth, than in his family's loss of property and station?
(a) His anger toward the British.
(b) His anger toward the French.
(c) His anger toward the Germans.
(d) His anger toward the Bolsheviks.

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

5. After his father's death, to where does Nabokov's widowed mother move?
(a) London.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Prague.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Nabokov's mother often wander the estate's forest?

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

5. To whom does Nabokov feel the strongest bond of kinship?

(see the answer key)

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