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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 the common name for Boletusoften?
(a) Red geraniums.
(b) Tube mushrooms.
(c) Blue grass.
(d) Tropical hibiscus.

2. Why does Nabokov's mother often wander the estate's forest?
(a) She becomes lost easily.
(b) It helps clear her mind.
(c) She loves the estate property.
(d) To search for mushrooms.

3. Who dies young of a heart ailment?
(a) The schoolmaster.
(b) A Polish tutor.
(c) A Ukrainian mathematician.
(d) A Greek spelling tutor.

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

5. What earns Vladimir several rebukes from the Tsarist government?
(a) His refusal to be on this council.
(b) His tardiness to meetings.
(c) His increasing outspokenness about human rights.
(d) His teasing of the Tsarina.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Nabokov's mother trick Dimitri into believing he is still?

2. What is memorable about this first memory?

3. To what simple rule does Nabokov's mother ascribe?

4. To what does the memory of the bracelet lead?

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

(see the answer key)

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