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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 investigate about his family?
(a) Their country of origin.
(b) The family's coat of arms.
(c) Their religion.
(d) Their relationship to the tsar.

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

3. To whom is Chapter Five devoted?
(a) Nabokov's mother.
(b) Nabokov's governess.
(c) Nabokov's wife.
(d) Nabokov's father.

4. What does the butterfly net in particular always invite?
(a) Exciting questions.
(b) Awkward comments.
(c) Curious visitors.
(d) Intriguing discussions.

5. What is the first memory Nabokov drags from the darkness?
(a) Playing in the yard on the estate.
(b) Going on a picnic with his mother and father.
(c) Being fed by his nanny.
(d) Holding hands with his mother and father, as the three of them walk along a garden path in 1903,

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the rain cause to grow on the estate?

2. Who are Miss Norcott and Miss Hunt?

3. From where is the family returning to Russia?

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

5. Soon, the string of nurses transforms into what?

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