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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Soon, the string of nurses transforms into what?
(a) A string of surgeons.
(b) A string of teachers.
(c) A string of doctors.
(d) A string of governesses.

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

3. Why is Nabokov disappointed to hear that one of his tutors marries a peasant girl?
(a) He thinks he should have married his aunt.
(b) He thinks of his tutors as people devoted to their art or profession.
(c) He thinks he should have married one of his sisters.
(d) He thinks he should have married someone in a higher social class.

4. Where does Nabokov's mother trick Dimitri into believing he is still?
(a) In London.
(b) In France.
(c) In Russia.
(d) In Greece.

5. Though many doubt this ailment, What happens to Ivanovich?
(a) He slips a disc.
(b) He ends up with scoliosis.
(c) He dies from lung cancer.
(d) He dies of a heart ailment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the children bathe?

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

3. To what does the memory of the bracelet lead?

4. After his father's death, to where does Nabokov's widowed mother move?

5. What is the common name for Boletusoften?

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