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

2. To what does the memory of the bracelet lead?
(a) An important memory about Mademoiselle.
(b) An important memory about his father.
(c) An important memory about Colette.
(d) An important memory about his mother.

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

4. At the time the family moves, where are Nabokov and his brother?
(a) In Oxford.
(b) In Cambridge.
(c) In the University of Paris.
(d) In New York University.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What mystifies the two boys about Mademoiselle?

2. This chapter is the first recorded work, published in French in 1936, under the name "Mademoiselle O."

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

4. Of what are Nabokov's memories in a Russian setting?

5. What is the first memory Nabokov drags from the darkness?

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