Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nabokov's mother often wander the estate's forest?
(a) To search for mushrooms.
(b) She becomes lost easily.
(c) She loves the estate property.
(d) It helps clear her mind.

2. Why does Young Vladimir favor the new methods of studying butterflies?
(a) They are more efficient.
(b) He enjoys delving into the minutiae of the subject.
(c) They are more exciting.
(d) They are easier to use.

3. With what is young Vladimir obsessed?
(a) Poetry.
(b) The science of butterflies and the thrill of the hunt.
(c) Playing the piano with his father.
(d) Hunting wild animals on his family's estate.

4. What does Nabokov's mother do on the trip to Paris?
(a) Watches as Russian, and then German, towns glide by.
(b) Sleeps.
(c) Plays games with her children.
(d) Talks to her husband.

5. What game does the whole family often play on the estate?
(a) Lawn bowling.
(b) Badmitton.
(c) Lawn tennis.
(d) Rounders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Yuri and Nabokov invent?

2. With what is the aristocratic Nabokov house stocked?

3. What is one of his other memories?

4. In any of the memories he has from before his obsession began, Nabokov cannot recall the presence of butterflies. What can he recall afterward?

5. How does Mademoiselle provide Vladimir with an extra hour or two out of the darkness?

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