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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does he do with a poem before he writes it down?
(a) He reads the poem to his mother.
(b) He discusses his ideas with his father.
(c) He writes it on a chalkboard.
(d) He contructs it entirely in his head.

2. What does this hobby do to him?
(a) It encourages him to spend time outside.
(b) It isolates him throughout life.
(c) It helps him make friends.
(d) It encourages him to study.

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

4. What is their mother's reaction when she sees that her children have opened the presents from their stockings early and poorly rewrapped them?
(a) She laughs at their attempt at deception.
(b) She spots their deception and bursts into tears.
(c) She pretends to not see their poor rewrapping.
(d) She scolds them for trying to deceive her.

5. Why is he detained briefly in 1918, by a Bolshevik soldier?
(a) He has run away from the Red Army.
(b) He is evading the draft.
(c) He is accused him of signaling British warships with his net.
(d) He is trying to escape the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Nabokov feel the strongest bond of kinship?

2. When does his first poem take shape in his mind?

3. What does Nabokov call the process of using both the English and Russian translations of "Speak, Memory" to shape the current work?

4. Why does little Vladimir close his eyes at the bottom of each stairway?

5. Why does Nabokov feel exiled in Crimea, a Russian territory?

(see the answer key)

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