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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the memory of the bracelet lead?
(a) An important memory about his mother.
(b) An important memory about Mademoiselle.
(c) An important memory about Colette.
(d) An important memory about his father.

2. Why, when Nabokov is a child, is he terrified of the dark?
(a) He seems to lose himself in the pitch black.
(b) He thinks burglars will come into his room.
(c) He is afraid of monsters under his bed.
(d) He is afraid his home will catch on fire.

3. Why does little Vladimir close his eyes at the bottom of each stairway?
(a) His father is taking him to bed.
(b) He and his mother are playing a game on the way to the children's sleeping rooms.
(c) His nanny is coaxing him up the stairs.
(d) He and his brother are playing hide and seek.

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

5. From where does Mademoiselle come?
(a) Denmark.
(b) Africa.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Nabokov disappointed to hear that one of his tutors marries a peasant girl?

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. To what simple rule does Nabokov's mother ascribe?

5. What has Nabokov always had difficulty doing?

(see the answer key)

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