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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Nabokov feel exiled in Crimea, a Russian territory?
(a) He misses Tamara.
(b) He misses his butterflies.
(c) The environment is so foreign.
(d) He does not have his family with him.

3. From where does Mademoiselle come?
(a) Africa.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) Denmark.
(d) France.

4. Why, when Nabokov is a child, is he terrified of the dark?
(a) He seems to lose himself in the pitch black.
(b) He thinks burglars will come into his room.
(c) He is afraid of monsters under his bed.
(d) He is afraid his home will catch on fire.

5. With what is the aristocratic Nabokov house stocked?
(a) German beer.
(b) Russian antiques.
(c) English and French amenities.
(d) French literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is young Vladimir's main concern?

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

3. Though he is an excellent teacher to the Nabokov boys, what does Lenski find difficult?

4. What is the purpose of the Constituent Assembly?

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

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