View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mademoiselle threatens several times to leave. Why does she end up staying?
(a) Nabokov's mother gives her a raise.
(b) Nabokov's mother talks her into staying
(c) Nabokov's mother gives her gifts.
(d) Nabokov's mother threatens her.

2. How does Mademoiselle provide Vladimir with an extra hour or two out of the darkness?
(a) He sits with him while he falls asleep.
(b) The light from her lamp gives a little light to his room.
(c) She allows him to fall asleep in her room.
(d) She leaves a candle lit by his bed.

3. 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.

4. What does Nabokov investigate about his family?
(a) The family's coat of arms.
(b) Their relationship to the tsar.
(c) Their religion.
(d) Their country of origin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a battle against the yawning darkness?

2. What does Nabokov reveal about his mind?

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?

4. Why does Nabokov's father force the family to leave a sidewalk cafe?

5. What is memorable about this first memory?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 328 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample