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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What properties do the Nabokovs own until the Russian revolution?
(a) Several large estates south of St. Petersburg.
(b) A large estate in Moscow.
(c) A large estate in St. Petersburg.
(d) Several summer cottages on the Baltic Sea.

3. 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 laughs at their attempt at deception.
(b) She pretends to not see their poor rewrapping.
(c) She spots their deception and bursts into tears.
(d) She scolds them for trying to deceive her.

4. What is a battle against the yawning darkness?
(a) Autobiography.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Religion.
(d) Love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the memory of the bracelet lead?

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

3. Who occupies one of the estates near St. Petersburg when not abroad?

4. 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?

5. After his father's death, to where does Nabokov's widowed mother move?

(see the answer key)

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