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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the common name for Boletusoften?
(a) Tropical hibiscus.
(b) Red geraniums.
(c) Tube mushrooms.
(d) Blue grass.

4. Why is the family forced to leave Russia?
(a) The revolution has ended.
(b) Their religion is being persecuted.
(c) Their visas have expired.
(d) The father is in trouble with the police.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who occupies one of the estates near St. Petersburg when not abroad?

3. This chapter is the first recorded work, published in French in 1936, under the name "Mademoiselle O."

4. What is memorable about this first memory?

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

(see the answer key)

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