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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This chapter is the first recorded work, published in French in 1936, under the name "Mademoiselle O."
(a) Chapter Five.
(b) Chapter Two.
(c) Chapter Four.
(d) Chapter Seven.

2. What is their mother's reaction when she sees that her children have opened the presents from their stockings early and poorly rewrapped them?
(a) She spots their deception and bursts into tears.
(b) She scolds them for trying to deceive her.
(c) She pretends to not see their poor rewrapping.
(d) She laughs at their attempt at deception.

3. What does Nabokov investigate about his family?
(a) Their relationship to the tsar.
(b) Their country of origin.
(c) The family's coat of arms.
(d) Their religion.

4. Why does Vasiliy insist upon lying supine on the floor?
(a) He claims it stretches out his spine.
(b) He claims it improves his posture.
(c) He claims it relieves his chest pains.
(d) He claims it helps him breathe better.

5. Where does Nabokov's mother trick Dimitri into believing he is still?
(a) In Greece.
(b) In London.
(c) In France.
(d) In Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what is Nabokov's mother quite sensitive?

2. Where does Nabokov's family live until his father's death in 1922?

3. What game does the whole family often play on the estate?

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

5. Who are some of the ancestors on Nabokov's paternal, Russian side?

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