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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nabokov learn to read and write before Russian or French?
(a) Swedish.
(b) German.
(c) English.
(d) Dutch.

2. What is their mother's reaction when she sees that her children have opened the presents from their stockings early and poorly rewrapped them?
(a) She scolds them for trying to deceive her.
(b) She pretends to not see their poor rewrapping.
(c) She spots their deception and bursts into tears.
(d) She laughs at their attempt at deception.

3. From where does Mademoiselle come?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) France.
(c) Africa.
(d) Denmark.

4. When does Nabokov see Mademoiselle again after she is no longer in their household?
(a) In New York after the family emigrates to the U.S.
(b) In London while Nabokov is at Cambridge.
(c) In Paris right before the war.
(d) In Lausanne after the war.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the family forced to leave Russia?

2. What does Nabokov call the process of using both the English and Russian translations of "Speak, Memory" to shape the current work?

3. From where is the family returning to Russia?

4. To what does Nabokov compare existence?

5. After his retirement, from what does Dimitri Nabokov begin to suffer?

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