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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what simple rule does Nabokov's mother ascribe?
(a) Love with all your soul and leave the rest to fate.
(b) Follow the Golden Rule.
(c) Be honest and things will go your way.
(d) Love your neighbors as yourself.

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

3. What does Nabokov claim stems more from an ecological longing for the place of his birth, than in his family's loss of property and station?
(a) His anger toward the British.
(b) His anger toward the Bolsheviks.
(c) His anger toward the Germans.
(d) His anger toward the French.

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

5. What is memorable about this first memory?
(a) He realizes he has the ability to control his own body.
(b) He understands that everyone must eat.
(c) He understands that he is a separate being from his father and mother.
(d) He wonders where his parents are.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To whom does Nabokov feel the strongest bond of kinship?

4. What game does the whole family often play on the estate?

5. The rest of the chapters are published separately, mainly by whom?

(see the answer key)

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