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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 does Nabokov compare existence?
(a) A rollercoaster ride.
(b) The sands in an hourglass.
(c) A cradle rocking on the edge of an abyss.
(d) The seconds on a clock.

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

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

4. To what is Nabokov's mother quite sensitive?
(a) Insect bites.
(b) Perfume.
(c) Seemingly small events.
(d) Insults.

5. How does Nabokov open his autobiography?
(a) With a short review of Russian history.
(b) With a short meditation on the periods of inexistence before birth and after death.
(c) With an examination of his early childhood.
(d) With a short story about the birth of his son.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of his other memories?

2. What does Nabokov claim stems more from an ecological longing for the place of his birth, than in his family's loss of property and station?

3. What does the rain cause to grow on the estate?

4. Of what descent is Nabokov's mother?

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

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