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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who are Miss Norcott and Miss Hunt?
(a) Two of Vladimir's girlfriends.
(b) Two of Vladimir's governesses.
(c) Two of Vladimir's tutors.
(d) Two of Vladimir's aunts.

3. Why does Nabokov's father force the family to leave a sidewalk cafe?
(a) The food is not edible.
(b) The wait staff is slow and untrained.
(c) His father sees an old acquaintance he would rather avoid.
(d) The father notices two Japanese officers dining at a nearby table.

4. What are two events that Nabokov remembers watching outside his mother's window?
(a) The training of horses and the village children on their way to school.
(b) The training of horses and the revolutionary action in the street.
(c) Mr. Burness' arrival and the revolutionary action in the street.
(d) Mr. Burness' arrival nad the village children on their way to school.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Though many doubt this ailment, What happens to Ivanovich?

4. Why does Young Vladimir favor the new methods of studying butterflies?

5. How does Mr. Cummings influence Nabokov's scientific drawings of butterflies?

(see the answer key)

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