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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Nabokov open his autobiography?
(a) With a short meditation on the periods of inexistence before birth and after death.
(b) With an examination of his early childhood.
(c) With a short story about the birth of his son.
(d) With a short review of Russian history.

3. 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?
(a) His anger toward the Bolsheviks.
(b) His anger toward the Germans.
(c) His anger toward the British.
(d) His anger toward the French.

4. 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 "Path of the Hanged."
(c) The "Hanging Rope."
(d) The "Road to a Hanging."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the children bathe?

2. What is memorable about this first memory?

3. To what does Nabokov compare existence?

4. What are two events that Nabokov remembers watching outside his mother's window?

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

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