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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the memory of the bracelet lead?
(a) An important memory about Mademoiselle.
(b) An important memory about his father.
(c) An important memory about his mother.
(d) An important memory about Colette.

2. What is the process by which Vladimir Nabokov writes "Speak, Memory?"
(a) The autobiographical novel is culled from stories told to him by family members.
(b) The autobiographical novel is culled from essays on his life.
(c) The autobiographical novel is culled from Russian history books.
(d) The autobiographical novel is culled from essays written by the author's son.

3. What are two events that Nabokov remembers watching outside his mother's window?
(a) The training of horses and the revolutionary action in the street.
(b) Mr. Burness' arrival and the revolutionary action in the street.
(c) The training of horses and the village children on their way to school.
(d) Mr. Burness' arrival nad the village children on their way to school.

4. What does Nabokov learn to read and write before Russian or French?
(a) English.
(b) Dutch.
(c) German.
(d) Swedish.

5. 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 French.
(b) His anger toward the Bolsheviks.
(c) His anger toward the British.
(d) His anger toward the Germans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nabokov investigate about his family?

2. What does Nabokov call the process of using both the English and Russian translations of "Speak, Memory" to shape the current work?

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

4. Why is Nabokov disappointed to hear that one of his tutors marries a peasant girl?

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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