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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nabokov investigate about his family?
(a) Their country of origin.
(b) Their relationship to the tsar.
(c) The family's coat of arms.
(d) Their religion.

2. What game does the whole family often play on the estate?
(a) Lawn tennis.
(b) Badmitton.
(c) Rounders.
(d) Lawn bowling.

3. What is memorable about this first memory?
(a) He understands that everyone must eat.
(b) He realizes he has the ability to control his own body.
(c) He understands that he is a separate being from his father and mother.
(d) He wonders where his parents are.

4. At the time the family moves, where are Nabokov and his brother?
(a) In the University of Paris.
(b) In Oxford.
(c) In New York University.
(d) In Cambridge.

5. After his retirement, from what does Dimitri Nabokov begin to suffer?
(a) Arthritis.
(b) Emphysema.
(c) Dementia.
(d) Heart disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. Of what descent is Nabokov's mother?

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