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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the headstrong Yuri in later life introduce to Nabokov?
(a) The French language.
(b) Butterflies.
(c) Poetry.
(d) The Wild West fiction of Captain Mayne Reid.

2. What is the first memory Nabokov drags from the darkness?
(a) Holding hands with his mother and father, as the three of them walk along a garden path in 1903,
(b) Going on a picnic with his mother and father.
(c) Playing in the yard on the estate.
(d) Being fed by his nanny.

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

4. To whom is Chapter Five devoted?
(a) Nabokov's mother.
(b) Nabokov's governess.
(c) Nabokov's wife.
(d) Nabokov's father.

5. What is publication like outside of Russia?
(a) Often insufficiently lucrative to provide a comfortable existence.
(b) A well-paying, satisfying career.
(c) Not as good as in Russia.
(d) Better than in the United States.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. After his retirement, from what does Dimitri Nabokov begin to suffer?

4. To what simple rule does Nabokov's mother ascribe?

5. What is the process by which Vladimir Nabokov writes "Speak, Memory?"

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