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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The rest of the chapters are published separately, mainly by whom?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) The Chicago Tribune.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The St. Petersburg Publishing House.

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

3. What is one of his other memories?
(a) A dark tunnel through which he crawls, behind a divan in his parent's home.
(b) Playing tag with his younger brother.
(c) Getting lost in the estate's vast forest.
(d) Getting his foot stuck in the crib.

4. This chapter is the first recorded work, published in French in 1936, under the name "Mademoiselle O."
(a) Chapter Four.
(b) Chapter Five.
(c) Chapter Seven.
(d) Chapter Two.

5. Why does Nabokov's father force the family to leave a sidewalk cafe?
(a) His father sees an old acquaintance he would rather avoid.
(b) The food is not edible.
(c) The father notices two Japanese officers dining at a nearby table.
(d) The wait staff is slow and untrained.

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

3. To whom does Nabokov feel the strongest bond of kinship?

4. What does Nabokov reveal about his mind?

5. At the time the family moves, where are Nabokov and his brother?

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