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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) She laughs at their attempt at deception.
(b) She spots their deception and bursts into tears.
(c) She scolds them for trying to deceive her.
(d) She pretends to not see their poor rewrapping.

2. When does Nabokov see Mademoiselle again after she is no longer in their household?
(a) In New York after the family emigrates to the U.S.
(b) In London while Nabokov is at Cambridge.
(c) In Lausanne after the war.
(d) In Paris right before the war.

3. Where does Nabokov's mother trick Dimitri into believing he is still?
(a) In France.
(b) In Russia.
(c) In Greece.
(d) In London.

4. To what simple rule does Nabokov's mother ascribe?
(a) Follow the Golden Rule.
(b) Love your neighbors as yourself.
(c) Be honest and things will go your way.
(d) Love with all your soul and leave the rest to fate.

5. 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 French.
(b) His anger toward the Bolsheviks.
(c) His anger toward the Germans.
(d) His anger toward the British.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, when Nabokov is a child, is he terrified of the dark?

2. Who occupies one of the estates near St. Petersburg when not abroad?

3. How does Nabokov open his autobiography?

4. How does Mr. Cummings influence Nabokov's scientific drawings of butterflies?

5. Why does Vasiliy insist upon lying supine on the floor?

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