View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what is young Vladimir obsessed?
(a) The science of butterflies and the thrill of the hunt.
(b) Playing the piano with his father.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Hunting wild animals on his family's estate.

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

3. From where does Mademoiselle come?
(a) France.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) Africa.
(d) Denmark.

4. 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 Germans.
(c) His anger toward the Bolsheviks.
(d) His anger toward the French.

5. What does the rain cause to grow on the estate?
(a) Grass.
(b) Hibiscus.
(c) Mushrooms.
(d) Geraniums.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two events that Nabokov remembers watching outside his mother's window?

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?

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

4. What does the butterfly net in particular always invite?

5. What is happening to the science of butterflies at this time?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 347 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample