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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 memorable about this first memory?
(a) He understands that he is a separate being from his father and mother.
(b) He wonders where his parents are.
(c) He understands that everyone must eat.
(d) He realizes he has the ability to control his own body.

2. With what is young Vladimir obsessed?
(a) Playing the piano with his father.
(b) The science of butterflies and the thrill of the hunt.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Hunting wild animals on his family's estate.

3. How many children do the Nabokovs eventually have?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Six.

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

5. What would change throughout Nabokov's childhood, depending on the prevailing advice of the family's current medical consultant?
(a) The temperature of the bath water.
(b) The temperature in his home.
(c) How much he exercises.
(d) The medicines his mother uses.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lett punish the boys?

2. Of what are Nabokov's memories in a Russian setting?

3. After his father's death, to where does Nabokov's widowed mother move?

4. Why does Young Vladimir favor the new methods of studying butterflies?

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

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