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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 Young Vladimir discover in the family's attic?
(a) A small treasure trove of scientific books
(b) A small collection of exotic butterflies.
(c) A book of his family's ancestry.
(d) Souvenirs from the family trips to France.

2. Why does Nabokov's father force the family to leave a sidewalk cafe?
(a) The wait staff is slow and untrained.
(b) The food is not edible.
(c) The father notices two Japanese officers dining at a nearby table.
(d) His father sees an old acquaintance he would rather avoid.

3. What does Vladimir do before hurrying young Nabokov along to school?
(a) He bends down to kiss Nabokov.
(b) He has him take a bath.
(c) He makes sure he eats breakfast.
(d) He checks his school work.

4. How does Nabokov describe the poet?
(a) A man he wishes to be.
(b) A man who can feel and interpret everything that is happening in any single moment.
(c) A man of simple words.
(d) A man who can describe any setting.

5. From where is the family returning to Russia?
(a) An autumn in London.
(b) A winter in Greece.
(c) A summer in France.
(d) Almost an entire year abroad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Yuri and Nabokov invent?

2. What does this thriving upper-class tourist industry offer?

3. When does Nabokov see Mademoiselle again after she is no longer in their household?

4. After his father's death, to where does Nabokov's widowed mother move?

5. Who does Nabokov marry?

(see the answer key)

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