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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where is the family returning to Russia?
(a) A winter in Greece.
(b) Almost an entire year abroad.
(c) An autumn in London.
(d) A summer in France.

2. With what is young Vladimir obsessed?
(a) The science of butterflies and the thrill of the hunt.
(b) Hunting wild animals on his family's estate.
(c) Playing the piano with his father.
(d) Poetry.

3. After his father's death, to where does Nabokov's widowed mother move?
(a) Paris.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Prague.
(d) London.

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

5. Of what are Nabokov's memories in a Russian setting?
(a) A quite French childhood.
(b) A quite German childhood.
(c) A quite Russian childhood.
(d) A quite English childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would change throughout Nabokov's childhood, depending on the prevailing advice of the family's current medical consultant?

2. How does Nabokov open his autobiography?

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

4. Mademoiselle threatens several times to leave. Why does she end up staying?

5. What does Nabokov investigate about his family?

(see the answer key)

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