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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are some of the ancestors on Nabokov's paternal, Russian side?
(a) A prominent Caholic cardinal, a physician, and Dmitri Nabokov, an inventor.
(b) A lawyer, scientist, and Dmitri Nabokov, a well-known actor.
(c) A government leader, an opera singer, and Dmitri Nabokov, the surgeon.
(d) An explorer, the sister of a prominent Decembrist, and Dmitri Nabokov, the author's grandfather, who served as Minister of Justice for eight years.

2. Who are Miss Norcott and Miss Hunt?
(a) Two of Vladimir's tutors.
(b) Two of Vladimir's governesses.
(c) Two of Vladimir's girlfriends.
(d) Two of Vladimir's aunts.

3. What properties do the Nabokovs own until the Russian revolution?
(a) A large estate in Moscow.
(b) A large estate in St. Petersburg.
(c) Several large estates south of St. Petersburg.
(d) Several summer cottages on the Baltic Sea.

4. What does the rain cause to grow on the estate?
(a) Mushrooms.
(b) Geraniums.
(c) Grass.
(d) Hibiscus.

5. What are two events that Nabokov remembers watching outside his mother's window?
(a) The training of horses and the village children on their way to school.
(b) Mr. Burness' arrival and the revolutionary action in the street.
(c) The training of horses and the revolutionary action in the street.
(d) Mr. Burness' arrival nad the village children on their way to school.

Short Answer 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?

2. Of what are Nabokov's memories in a Russian setting?

3. Where do the children bathe?

4. How does Nabokov open his autobiography?

5. Where does Nabokov's mother trick Dimitri into believing he is still?

(see the answer key)

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