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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What game does the whole family often play on the estate?
(a) Rounders.
(b) Lawn bowling.
(c) Lawn tennis.
(d) Badmitton.

2. Why does Young Vladimir favor the new methods of studying butterflies?
(a) They are easier to use.
(b) He enjoys delving into the minutiae of the subject.
(c) They are more efficient.
(d) They are more exciting.

3. What does Nabokov call the process of using both the English and Russian translations of "Speak, Memory" to shape the current work?
(a) Redoing.
(b) Rewriting.
(c) Reediting.
(d) Re-Englishing.

4. Of what are Nabokov's memories in a Russian setting?
(a) A quite English childhood.
(b) A quite German childhood.
(c) A quite Russian childhood.
(d) A quite French childhood.

5. Each day, when he awakes, how can young Vladimir tell what kind of day it is?
(a) By having the servants open the curtains.
(b) By the character of the light that slips through the shutters.
(c) By asking his mother to check the weather.
(d) By looking out of the window.

Short Answer Questions

1. In any of the memories he has from before his obsession began, Nabokov cannot recall the presence of butterflies. What can he recall afterward?

2. Why do they hire the village schoolmaster, though he is not technically one of the family's regular tutors?

3. Why, when Nabokov is a child, is he terrified of the dark?

4. Why does Nabokov have secret spots?

5. When does Nabokov see Mademoiselle again after she is no longer in their household?

(see the answer key)

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