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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What mystifies the two boys about Mademoiselle?
(a) She has children that visit her once a month, but she never allows the two boys to play with her children.
(b) She is kind most of the timea but can easily lose her temper.
(c)
(d) She reads many novels to the boys, all in French, with a smooth, gentle voice.

2. Why does Nabokov's father force the family to leave a sidewalk cafe?
(a) The food is not edible.
(b) His father sees an old acquaintance he would rather avoid.
(c) The father notices two Japanese officers dining at a nearby table.
(d) The wait staff is slow and untrained.

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

4. After his retirement, from what does Dimitri Nabokov begin to suffer?
(a) Heart disease.
(b) Emphysema.
(c) Arthritis.
(d) Dementia.

5. How does Mademoiselle provide Vladimir with an extra hour or two out of the darkness?
(a) The light from her lamp gives a little light to his room.
(b) She allows him to fall asleep in her room.
(c) She leaves a candle lit by his bed.
(d) He sits with him while he falls asleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does little Vladimir close his eyes at the bottom of each stairway?

2. What properties do the Nabokovs own until the Russian revolution?

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

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

5. What is seen as a dreaded event?

(see the answer key)

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