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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Soon, the string of nurses transforms into what?
(a) A string of surgeons.
(b) A string of teachers.
(c) A string of doctors.
(d) A string of governesses.

2. What does Nabokov learn to read and write before Russian or French?
(a) Dutch.
(b) German.
(c) Swedish.
(d) English.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Nabokov compare existence?

2. Why does Nabokov's father force the family to leave a sidewalk cafe?

3. What does Nabokov call the process of using both the English and Russian translations of "Speak, Memory" to shape the current work?

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?

5. After his father's death, to where does Nabokov's widowed mother move?

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