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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is happening to the science of butterflies at this time?
(a) The Germans have made leaps and bounds in discoveries.
(b) They have not found any new species.
(c) It has not changed for decades.
(d) There is a great unheaval.

2. With what is the aristocratic Nabokov house stocked?
(a) French literature.
(b) Russian antiques.
(c) English and French amenities.
(d) German beer.

3. What is young Vladimir's main concern?
(a) Whether or not he can play with his friends down the road.
(b) Whether or not he will be able to go hunting for new and rare butterflies.
(c) Whether or not he will be able to go horseback riding.
(d) Whether or not he can play in the forest.

4. Mademoiselle threatens several times to leave. Why does she end up staying?
(a) Nabokov's mother gives her gifts.
(b) Nabokov's mother threatens her.
(c) Nabokov's mother gives her a raise.
(d) Nabokov's mother talks her into staying

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what are Nabokov's memories in a Russian setting?

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

3. What would change throughout Nabokov's childhood, depending on the prevailing advice of the family's current medical consultant?

4. What does Nabokov learn to read and write before Russian or French?

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

(see the answer key)

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