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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 a battle against the yawning darkness?
(a) Love.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Autobiography.
(d) Religion.

2. What is Nabokov's favorite medium?
(a) Drawing.
(b) Oils.
(c) Watercolors.
(d) Clay.

3. What is the subject of this chapter?
(a) Nabokov's uncle, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.
(b) Nabokov's brother, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.
(c) Nabokov's tutor, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.
(d) Nabokov's father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.

4. What is one of his other memories?
(a) Playing tag with his younger brother.
(b) A dark tunnel through which he crawls, behind a divan in his parent's home.
(c) Getting his foot stuck in the crib.
(d) Getting lost in the estate's vast forest.

5. What is the first memory Nabokov drags from the darkness?
(a) Going on a picnic with his mother and father.
(b) Holding hands with his mother and father, as the three of them walk along a garden path in 1903,
(c) Being fed by his nanny.
(d) Playing in the yard on the estate.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the family spend their time in this town?

2. Who is their first spelling tutor?

3. In 1904, who does Nabokov remember meeting for the first time?

4. After his retirement, from what does Dimitri Nabokov begin to suffer?

5. What does Vladimir continue to do while in exile in Berlin?

(see the answer key)

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