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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What game does the whole family often play on the estate?
(a) Badmitton.
(b) Rounders.
(c) Lawn bowling.
(d) Lawn tennis.

2. Why does Nabokov's mother often wander the estate's forest?
(a) She becomes lost easily.
(b) She loves the estate property.
(c) To search for mushrooms.
(d) It helps clear her mind.

3. What does this thriving upper-class tourist industry offer?
(a) Vendors lining the beach and even servants in the change huts to assist in the removal of bathing suits.
(b) Expensive restaurants, street vendors, and swimming lessons.
(c) Live performances, pubs and restaurants, and bicycles to rent.
(d) Gambling, live theatre, and music.

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

5. Why, when Nabokov is a child, is he terrified of the dark?
(a) He is afraid of monsters under his bed.
(b) He is afraid his home will catch on fire.
(c) He seems to lose himself in the pitch black.
(d) He thinks burglars will come into his room.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what is the aristocratic Nabokov house stocked?

3. Why does Young Vladimir favor the new methods of studying butterflies?

4. What is the process by which Vladimir Nabokov writes "Speak, Memory?"

5. What is the first memory Nabokov drags from the darkness?

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