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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Nabokov learn to read and write before Russian or French?
(a) German.
(b) English.
(c) Dutch.
(d) Swedish.

4. To whom does Nabokov feel the strongest bond of kinship?
(a) His mother's paternal grandfather, Nikolay Illarionovich Kozlov.
(b) His father's paternal grandfather, Nikolay Illarionovich Kozlov.
(c) His mother's maternal grandfather, Nikolay Illarionovich Kozlov.
(d) His father's maternal grandfather, Nikolay Illarionovich Kozlov.

5. To what does Nabokov compare existence?
(a) A cradle rocking on the edge of an abyss.
(b) The seconds on a clock.
(c) A rollercoaster ride.
(d) The sands in an hourglass.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would change throughout Nabokov's childhood, depending on the prevailing advice of the family's current medical consultant?

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

3. At the time the family moves, where are Nabokov and his brother?

4. It is unusual for aristocrats in Russian to be hanged, and as a child, what does Nabokov call the trail through the woods on the estate where a previous owner had been hanged?

5. The rest of the chapters are published separately, mainly by whom?

(see the answer key)

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