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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is young Vladimir's main concern?
(a) Whether or not he will be able to go horseback riding.
(b) Whether or not he can play with his friends down the road.
(c) Whether or not he will be able to go hunting for new and rare butterflies.
(d) Whether or not he can play in the forest.

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

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

4. Who is their first spelling tutor?
(a) Oliver.
(b) Dmitri.
(c) Max.
(d) Ordo.

5. What does this hobby do to him?
(a) It encourages him to study.
(b) It helps him make friends.
(c) It isolates him throughout life.
(d) It encourages him to spend time outside.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Nabokov feel the strongest bond of kinship?

2. Why is Nabokov disappointed to hear that one of his tutors marries a peasant girl?

3. Who is referred to simply as "Mademoiselle?"

4. What is their mother's reaction when she sees that her children have opened the presents from their stockings early and poorly rewrapped them?

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

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