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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) Lawn bowling.
(b) Lawn tennis.
(c) Rounders.
(d) Badmitton.

2. The rest of the chapters are published separately, mainly by whom?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The St. Petersburg Publishing House.

3. How long does the family stay in Paris?
(a) Six months.
(b) One night.
(c) One week.
(d) One month.

4. Where does Nabokov's family live until his father's death in 1922?
(a) In Paris.
(b) In Brussels.
(c) In Berlin.
(d) In Hamburg.

5. When does Nabokov eventually discover a new species?
(a) At Cambridge.
(b) Not until he is an old man, living in exile in the United States.
(c) As a small boy in Russia.
(d) In Germany visiting his family.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do they arrive in Paris?

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

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

4. What does Nabokov reveal about his mind?

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

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