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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The rest of the chapters are published separately, mainly by whom?
(a) The St. Petersburg Publishing House.
(b) The Chicago Tribune.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) The New York Times.

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

3. How does Nabokov open his autobiography?
(a) With a short review of Russian history.
(b) With an examination of his early childhood.
(c) With a short story about the birth of his son.
(d) With a short meditation on the periods of inexistence before birth and after death.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a battle against the yawning darkness?

2. To what is Nabokov's mother quite sensitive?

3. Of what descent is Nabokov's mother?

4. What does the rain cause to grow on the estate?

5. To what does Nabokov compare existence?

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