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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does this thriving upper-class tourist industry offer?
(a) Expensive restaurants, street vendors, and swimming lessons.
(b) Vendors lining the beach and even servants in the change huts to assist in the removal of bathing suits.
(c) Live performances, pubs and restaurants, and bicycles to rent.
(d) Gambling, live theatre, and music.
2. What does Vladimir study at St. Petersburg University?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Law.
(c) Music.
(d) Art.
3. What does the rain cause to grow on the estate?
(a) Hibiscus.
(b) Grass.
(c) Geraniums.
(d) Mushrooms.
4. What has Nabokov always had difficulty doing?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Eating.
(c) Writing.
(d) Speaking in public.
5. Who rents a modest summer cottage called a dachka?
(a) Colette parents.
(b) Nabokov's uncle.
(c) The Nabokov family.
(d) Tamara's parents.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens to Yuri in northern Crimea?
2. What is memorable about this first memory?
3. What does Nabokov call the process of using both the English and Russian translations of "Speak, Memory" to shape the current work?
4. When does Nabokov begin to write poetry?
5. What is their mother's reaction when she sees that her children have opened the presents from their stockings early and poorly rewrapped them?
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