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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the family spend their time in this town?
(a) Mountain climbing.
(b) On a boat.
(c) On the beach.
(d) Shopping.

2. What is seen as a dreaded event?
(a) Speaking in public.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Writing.
(d) Eating.

3. Where does Nabokov's mother trick Dimitri into believing he is still?
(a) In Greece.
(b) In London.
(c) In France.
(d) In Russia.

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

5. Why is he detained briefly in 1918, by a Bolshevik soldier?
(a) He is accused him of signaling British warships with his net.
(b) He is trying to escape the country.
(c) He is evading the draft.
(d) He has run away from the Red Army.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the common name for Boletusoften?

2. 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?

3. How many years does Mademoiselle spend with the family?

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

5. What earns Vladimir several rebukes from the Tsarist government?

(see the answer key)

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