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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 Two.
(b) Chapter Five.
(c) Chapter Four.
(d) Chapter Seven.

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

3. What does Nabokov call the process of using both the English and Russian translations of "Speak, Memory" to shape the current work?
(a) Re-Englishing.
(b) Redoing.
(c) Reediting.
(d) Rewriting.

4. Who occupies one of the estates near St. Petersburg when not abroad?
(a) Vyra, Nabokov's wife.
(b) Nabokov's father, Dmitri.
(c) Nabokov's cousin, Yuri.
(d) Nabokov's uncle, Vasiliy Ivanovich.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Nabokov reveal about his mind?

4. Why does Vasiliy insist upon lying supine on the floor?

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

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