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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does Nabokov claim stems more from an ecological longing for the place of his birth, than in his family's loss of property and station?
(a) His anger toward the Bolsheviks.
(b) His anger toward the Germans.
(c) His anger toward the French.
(d) His anger toward the British.

3. What does Young Vladimir discover in the family's attic?
(a) Souvenirs from the family trips to France.
(b) A small treasure trove of scientific books
(c) A small collection of exotic butterflies.
(d) A book of his family's ancestry.

4. Where do the children bathe?
(a) English portable tubs.
(b) The creek on the estate.
(c) French bathing tubs.
(d) Russian baths.

5. What is happening to the science of butterflies at this time?
(a) The Germans have made leaps and bounds in discoveries.
(b) It has not changed for decades.
(c) They have not found any new species.
(d) There is a great unheaval.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mademoiselle provide Vladimir with an extra hour or two out of the darkness?

2. What does this hobby do to him?

3. Why, when Nabokov is a child, is he terrified of the dark?

4. What is seen as a dreaded event?

5. To what does Nabokov compare existence?

(see the answer key)

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