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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what simple rule does Nabokov's mother ascribe?
(a) Be honest and things will go your way.
(b) Love with all your soul and leave the rest to fate.
(c) Follow the Golden Rule.
(d) Love your neighbors as yourself.

2. Of what descent is Nabokov's mother?
(a) Aristocratic German descent.
(b) Aristocratic English descent.
(c) Aristocratic Swedish descent.
(d) Aristocratic Norwegian descent.

3. Where does Nabokov's family live until his father's death in 1922?
(a) In Brussels.
(b) In Paris.
(c) In Hamburg.
(d) In Berlin.

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

5. What is the common name for Boletusoften?
(a) Red geraniums.
(b) Tube mushrooms.
(c) Blue grass.
(d) Tropical hibiscus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the process by which Vladimir Nabokov writes "Speak, Memory?"

3. Why does Nabokov's mother often wander the estate's forest?

4. What is memorable about this first memory?

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

(see the answer key)

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