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

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

2. Who are Miss Norcott and Miss Hunt?
(a) Two of Vladimir's governesses.
(b) Two of Vladimir's aunts.
(c) Two of Vladimir's girlfriends.
(d) Two of Vladimir's tutors.

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

4. Who are some of the ancestors on Nabokov's paternal, Russian side?
(a) A prominent Caholic cardinal, a physician, and Dmitri Nabokov, an inventor.
(b) A government leader, an opera singer, and Dmitri Nabokov, the surgeon.
(c) A lawyer, scientist, and Dmitri Nabokov, a well-known actor.
(d) An explorer, the sister of a prominent Decembrist, and Dmitri Nabokov, the author's grandfather, who served as Minister of Justice for eight years.

5. What does the rain cause to grow on the estate?
(a) Mushrooms.
(b) Geraniums.
(c) Hibiscus.
(d) Grass.

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. 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?

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

5. What is memorable about this first memory?

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