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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Soon, the string of nurses transforms into what?
(a) A string of doctors.
(b) A string of teachers.
(c) A string of surgeons.
(d) A string of governesses.

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

3. Who occupies one of the estates near St. Petersburg when not abroad?
(a) Vyra, Nabokov's wife.
(b) Nabokov's uncle, Vasiliy Ivanovich.
(c) Nabokov's father, Dmitri.
(d) Nabokov's cousin, Yuri.

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

5. Of what descent is Nabokov's mother?
(a) Aristocratic German descent.
(b) Aristocratic English descent.
(c) Aristocratic Swedish descent.
(d) Aristocratic Norwegian descent.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Nabokov see Mademoiselle again after she is no longer in their household?

2. Who are Miss Norcott and Miss Hunt?

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. What game does the whole family often play on the estate?

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

(see the answer key)

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