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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 simple rule does Nabokov's mother ascribe?
(a) Be honest and things will go your way.
(b) Follow the Golden Rule.
(c) Love with all your soul and leave the rest to fate.
(d) Love your neighbors as yourself.

2. To whom does Nabokov feel the strongest bond of kinship?
(a) His mother's paternal grandfather, Nikolay Illarionovich Kozlov.
(b) His mother's maternal grandfather, Nikolay Illarionovich Kozlov.
(c) His father's paternal grandfather, Nikolay Illarionovich Kozlov.
(d) His father's maternal grandfather, Nikolay Illarionovich Kozlov.

3. Of what descent is Nabokov's mother?
(a) Aristocratic English descent.
(b) Aristocratic Norwegian descent.
(c) Aristocratic Swedish descent.
(d) Aristocratic German descent.

4. Where do the children bathe?
(a) The creek on the estate.
(b) Russian baths.
(c) French bathing tubs.
(d) English portable tubs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the process by which Vladimir Nabokov writes "Speak, Memory?"

2. 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?

3. To what does Nabokov compare existence?

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

5. Why does Vasiliy insist upon lying supine on the floor?

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