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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 seen as a dreaded event?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Speaking in public.
(c) Eating.
(d) Writing.

2. In any of the memories he has from before his obsession began, Nabokov cannot recall the presence of butterflies. What can he recall afterward?
(a) Not very many butterflies, because most Russian varieties are extinct.
(b) He cannot find nearly as many butterflies as he thought he would.
(c) He is constantly finding new species.
(d) He cannot remember the outdoors without them.

3. How does Mademoiselle provide Vladimir with an extra hour or two out of the darkness?
(a) The light from her lamp gives a little light to his room.
(b) She allows him to fall asleep in her room.
(c) He sits with him while he falls asleep.
(d) She leaves a candle lit by his bed.

4. Where do the children bathe?
(a) Russian baths.
(b) The creek on the estate.
(c) English portable tubs.
(d) French bathing tubs.

5. 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 can play in the forest.
(c) Whether or not he will be able to go horseback riding.
(d) Whether or not he will be able to go hunting for new and rare butterflies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What properties do the Nabokovs own until the Russian revolution?

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

3. Why is he detained briefly in 1918, by a Bolshevik soldier?

4. Why is Nabokov disappointed to hear that one of his tutors marries a peasant girl?

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

(see the answer key)

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