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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the family forced to leave Russia?
(a) The revolution has ended.
(b) Their visas have expired.
(c) The father is in trouble with the police.
(d) Their religion is being persecuted.

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

3. This chapter is the first recorded work, published in French in 1936, under the name "Mademoiselle O."
(a) Chapter Two.
(b) Chapter Five.
(c) Chapter Seven.
(d) Chapter Four.

4. What is one of his other memories?
(a) Getting lost in the estate's vast forest.
(b) A dark tunnel through which he crawls, behind a divan in his parent's home.
(c) Getting his foot stuck in the crib.
(d) Playing tag with his younger brother.

5. What does Nabokov call the process of using both the English and Russian translations of "Speak, Memory" to shape the current work?
(a) Rewriting.
(b) Re-Englishing.
(c) Redoing.
(d) Reediting.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do the children bathe?

3. What has Nabokov always had difficulty doing?

4. What does Nabokov investigate about his family?

5. What does the rain cause to grow on the estate?

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