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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. After his father's death, to where does Nabokov's widowed mother move?
(a) Prague.
(b) London.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Paris.

4. Why is the family forced to leave Russia?
(a) Their visas have expired.
(b) The father is in trouble with the police.
(c) The revolution has ended.
(d) Their religion is being persecuted.

5. What is a battle against the yawning darkness?
(a) Love.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Religion.
(d) Autobiography.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the common name for Boletusoften?

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

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?

4. What game does the whole family often play on the estate?

5. What is the first memory Nabokov drags from the darkness?

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