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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What properties do the Nabokovs own until the Russian revolution?
(a) A large estate in St. Petersburg.
(b) A large estate in Moscow.
(c) Several large estates south of St. Petersburg.
(d) Several summer cottages on the Baltic Sea.

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

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

4. Who is referred to simply as "Mademoiselle?"
(a) His aunt.
(b) His sister.
(c) The tutor.
(d) The governess.

5. Why does little Vladimir close his eyes at the bottom of each stairway?
(a) He and his brother are playing hide and seek.
(b) His father is taking him to bed.
(c) He and his mother are playing a game on the way to the children's sleeping rooms.
(d) His nanny is coaxing him up the stairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. To what is Nabokov's mother quite sensitive?

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

4. Who occupies one of the estates near St. Petersburg when not abroad?

5. What does Young Vladimir discover in the family's attic?

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