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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are Miss Norcott and Miss Hunt?
(a) Two of Vladimir's girlfriends.
(b) Two of Vladimir's aunts.
(c) Two of Vladimir's governesses.
(d) Two of Vladimir's tutors.

2. 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 his home will catch on fire.
(d) He is afraid of monsters under his bed.

3. What does Nabokov learn to read and write before Russian or French?
(a) English.
(b) Swedish.
(c) German.
(d) Dutch.

4. It is unusual for aristocrats in Russian to be hanged, and as a child, what does Nabokov call the trail through the woods on the estate where a previous owner had been hanged?
(a) The "Path of the Hanged."
(b) The "Hanging Rope."
(c) The "Road to a Hanging."
(d) The "walk of the Hanged One."

5. Who are some of the ancestors on Nabokov's paternal, Russian side?
(a) A lawyer, scientist, and Dmitri Nabokov, a well-known actor.
(b) A government leader, an opera singer, and Dmitri Nabokov, the surgeon.
(c) A prominent Caholic cardinal, a physician, and Dmitri Nabokov, an inventor.
(d) An explorer, the sister of a prominent Decembrist, and Dmitri Nabokov, the author's grandfather, who served as Minister of Justice for eight years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the common name for Boletusoften?

2. What is the first memory Nabokov drags from the darkness?

3. Where do the children bathe?

4. Soon, the string of nurses transforms into what?

5. What properties do the Nabokovs own until the Russian revolution?

(see the answer key)

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