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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who occupies one of the estates near St. Petersburg when not abroad?
(a) Vyra, Nabokov's wife.
(b) Nabokov's uncle, Vasiliy Ivanovich.
(c) Nabokov's father, Dmitri.
(d) Nabokov's cousin, Yuri.
2. What is the first memory Nabokov drags from the darkness?
(a) Playing in the yard on the estate.
(b) Being fed by his nanny.
(c) Going on a picnic with his mother and father.
(d) Holding hands with his mother and father, as the three of them walk along a garden path in 1903,
3. To whom is Chapter Five devoted?
(a) Nabokov's wife.
(b) Nabokov's father.
(c) Nabokov's governess.
(d) Nabokov's mother.
4. What is the common name for Boletusoften?
(a) Red geraniums.
(b) Tube mushrooms.
(c) Tropical hibiscus.
(d) Blue grass.
5. Though many doubt this ailment, What happens to Ivanovich?
(a) He dies of a heart ailment.
(b) He slips a disc.
(c) He dies from lung cancer.
(d) He ends up with scoliosis.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where do the children bathe?
2. To what does Nabokov compare existence?
3. The rest of the chapters are published separately, mainly by whom?
4. Why does Nabokov's father force the family to leave a sidewalk cafe?
5. 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?
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