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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After his father's death, to where does Nabokov's widowed mother move?
(a) Paris.
(b) Berlin.
(c) London.
(d) Prague.

3. Why does Nabokov's father force the family to leave a sidewalk cafe?
(a) His father sees an old acquaintance he would rather avoid.
(b) The father notices two Japanese officers dining at a nearby table.
(c) The wait staff is slow and untrained.
(d) The food is not edible.

4. The rest of the chapters are published separately, mainly by whom?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Chicago Tribune.
(c) The St. Petersburg Publishing House.
(d) The New Yorker.

5. 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?
(a) The "Hanging Rope."
(b) The "Path of the Hanged."
(c) The "Road to a Hanging."
(d) The "walk of the Hanged One."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nabokov open his autobiography?

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

3. Though many doubt this ailment, What happens to Ivanovich?

4. Where does Nabokov's mother trick Dimitri into believing he is still?

5. After his retirement, from what does Dimitri Nabokov begin to suffer?

(see the answer key)

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