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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the memory of the bracelet lead?
(a) An important memory about Colette.
(b) An important memory about his mother.
(c) An important memory about his father.
(d) An important memory about Mademoiselle.

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

3. What has Nabokov always had difficulty doing?
(a) Speaking in public.
(b) Eating.
(c) Writing.
(d) Sleeping.

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

5. What does Nabokov's mother do on the trip to Paris?
(a) Talks to her husband.
(b) Plays games with her children.
(c) Sleeps.
(d) Watches as Russian, and then German, towns glide by.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mademoiselle provide Vladimir with an extra hour or two out of the darkness?

2. What is their mother's reaction when she sees that her children have opened the presents from their stockings early and poorly rewrapped them?

3. What game does the whole family often play on the estate?

4. The rest of the chapters are published separately, mainly by whom?

5. What mystifies the two boys about Mademoiselle?

(see the answer key)

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