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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) Love your neighbors as yourself.
(b) Be honest and things will go your way.
(c) Love with all your soul and leave the rest to fate.
(d) Follow the Golden Rule.

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

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

4. What is the first memory Nabokov drags from the darkness?
(a) Going on a picnic with his mother and father.
(b) Being fed by his nanny.
(c) Holding hands with his mother and father, as the three of them walk along a garden path in 1903,
(d) Playing in the yard on the estate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nabokov's father force the family to leave a sidewalk cafe?

2. What is memorable about this first memory?

3. This chapter is the first recorded work, published in French in 1936, under the name "Mademoiselle O."

4. What is a battle against the yawning darkness?

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?

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