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

2. What are two events that Nabokov remembers watching outside his mother's window?
(a) The training of horses and the revolutionary action in the street.
(b) Mr. Burness' arrival and the revolutionary action in the street.
(c) The training of horses and the village children on their way to school.
(d) Mr. Burness' arrival nad the village children on their way to school.

3. What is the process by which Vladimir Nabokov writes "Speak, Memory?"
(a) The autobiographical novel is culled from essays on his life.
(b) The autobiographical novel is culled from stories told to him by family members.
(c) The autobiographical novel is culled from Russian history books.
(d) The autobiographical novel is culled from essays written by the author's son.

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

5. What is their mother's reaction when she sees that her children have opened the presents from their stockings early and poorly rewrapped them?
(a) She laughs at their attempt at deception.
(b) She pretends to not see their poor rewrapping.
(c) She scolds them for trying to deceive her.
(d) She spots their deception and bursts into tears.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the common name for Boletusoften?

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

4. Though many doubt this ailment, What happens to Ivanovich?

5. Of what descent is Nabokov's mother?

(see the answer key)

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