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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. They board the Sud-Express and disembark in what town?
(a) Brest.
(b) Nice.
(c) Marseille.
(d) Biarritz.

2. Of what are Nabokov's memories in a Russian setting?
(a) A quite English childhood.
(b) A quite Russian childhood.
(c) A quite French childhood.
(d) A quite German childhood.

3. What is the subject of this chapter?
(a) Nabokov's tutor, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.
(b) Nabokov's uncle, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.
(c) Nabokov's brother, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.
(d) Nabokov's father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Yuri and Nabokov invent?

2. 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?

3. What does Nabokov confess about Yuri and himself?

4. What is memorable about this first memory?

5. What do the first-class carriages feature?

(see the answer key)

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