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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the time the family moves, where are Nabokov and his brother?
(a) In New York University.
(b) In Oxford.
(c) In Cambridge.
(d) In the University of Paris.

2. What is seen as a dreaded event?
(a) Speaking in public.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Writing.
(d) Eating.

3. What is memorable about this first memory?
(a) He realizes he has the ability to control his own body.
(b) He wonders where his parents are.
(c) He understands that he is a separate being from his father and mother.
(d) He understands that everyone must eat.

4. Why is he detained briefly in 1918, by a Bolshevik soldier?
(a) He is accused him of signaling British warships with his net.
(b) He is trying to escape the country.
(c) He is evading the draft.
(d) He has run away from the Red Army.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nabokov's favorite medium?

2. What does this hobby do to him?

3. When does Nabokov eventually discover a new species?

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

5. From where is the family returning to Russia?

(see the answer key)

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