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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why is Nabokov disappointed to hear that one of his tutors marries a peasant girl?
(a) He thinks of his tutors as people devoted to their art or profession.
(b) He thinks he should have married his aunt.
(c) He thinks he should have married one of his sisters.
(d) He thinks he should have married someone in a higher social class.

4. What is the common name for Boletusoften?
(a) Tube mushrooms.
(b) Tropical hibiscus.
(c) Blue grass.
(d) Red geraniums.

5. Though many doubt this ailment, What happens to Ivanovich?
(a) He dies of a heart ailment.
(b) He slips a disc.
(c) He ends up with scoliosis.
(d) He dies from lung cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is happening to the science of butterflies at this time?

2. What is one of his other memories?

3. What does Nabokov call the process of using both the English and Russian translations of "Speak, Memory" to shape the current work?

4. In exile in America, when a ranger or marshal spots him traipsing into the backwoods, net in hand, what is he asked?

5. What properties do the Nabokovs own until the Russian revolution?

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