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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do tours in these last few years in Europe culminate?
(a) In Big Ben, looking at the steamer that would take them to America.
(b) In the garden that the family walks through on their way to the docks to board the liner Champlain.
(c) In the Louvre for one last look at the Mona Lisa before emigrating to the United States.
(d) His family's estate in Russia before turning it over to the government.

2. Who occupies one of the estates near St. Petersburg when not abroad?
(a) Nabokov's father, Dmitri.
(b) Nabokov's cousin, Yuri.
(c) Nabokov's uncle, Vasiliy Ivanovich.
(d) Vyra, Nabokov's wife.

3. 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 scolds them for trying to deceive her.
(c) She spots their deception and bursts into tears.
(d) She pretends to not see their poor rewrapping.

4. Soon, the string of nurses transforms into what?
(a) A string of governesses.
(b) A string of surgeons.
(c) A string of teachers.
(d) A string of doctors.

5. What is one thing he recalls suddenly becoming aware of while creating a poem?
(a) His mother is removing a plate of untouched food from in front of him.
(b) His father is speaking to him.
(c) He has forgotten part of the poem.
(d) He's standing in the rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Nabokov's tutor rebuked by his mother?

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

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

4. The boredom of the audience at these poetry performances is obvious to everyone but whom?

5. What is the subject of this chapter?

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