View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This chapter is the first recorded work, published in French in 1936, under the name "Mademoiselle O."
(a) Chapter Four.
(b) Chapter Five.
(c) Chapter Seven.
(d) Chapter Two.

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

3. What mystifies the two boys about Mademoiselle?
(a)
(b) She has children that visit her once a month, but she never allows the two boys to play with her children.
(c) She reads many novels to the boys, all in French, with a smooth, gentle voice.
(d) She is kind most of the timea but can easily lose her temper.

4. Why does little Vladimir close his eyes at the bottom of each stairway?
(a) His nanny is coaxing him up the stairs.
(b) He and his mother are playing a game on the way to the children's sleeping rooms.
(c) His father is taking him to bed.
(d) He and his brother are playing hide and seek.

5. What is one of his other memories?
(a) Getting lost in the estate's vast forest.
(b) Getting his foot stuck in the crib.
(c) Playing tag with his younger brother.
(d) A dark tunnel through which he crawls, behind a divan in his parent's home.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is their mother's reaction when she sees that her children have opened the presents from their stockings early and poorly rewrapped them?

4. What properties do the Nabokovs own until the Russian revolution?

5. What does Nabokov learn to read and write before Russian or French?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 380 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample