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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nabokov reveal about his mind?
(a) He always associates sounds with colors.
(b) He has a great short-term memory.
(c) He hallucinates.
(d) He has depression.

2. This chapter is the first recorded work, published in French in 1936, under the name "Mademoiselle O."
(a) Chapter Two.
(b) Chapter Seven.
(c) Chapter Five.
(d) Chapter Four.

3. 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 "walk of the Hanged One."
(b) The "Path of the Hanged."
(c) The "Hanging Rope."
(d) The "Road to a Hanging."

4. Of what descent is Nabokov's mother?
(a) Aristocratic English descent.
(b) Aristocratic Norwegian descent.
(c) Aristocratic German descent.
(d) Aristocratic Swedish descent.

5. At the time the family moves, where are Nabokov and his brother?
(a) In the University of Paris.
(b) In Cambridge.
(c) In Oxford.
(d) In New York University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of his other memories?

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

3. To what does Nabokov compare existence?

4. Though many doubt this ailment, What happens to Ivanovich?

5. Where does Nabokov's family live until his father's death in 1922?

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