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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Nabokov disappointed to hear that one of his tutors marries a peasant girl?
(a) He thinks of his tutors as people devoted to their art or profession.
(b) He thinks he should have married one of his sisters.
(c) He thinks he should have married his aunt.
(d) He thinks he should have married someone in a higher social class.

2. After his retirement, from what does Dimitri Nabokov begin to suffer?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) Emphysema.
(d) Arthritis.

3. What is their mother's reaction when she sees that her children have opened the presents from their stockings early and poorly rewrapped them?
(a) She spots their deception and bursts into tears.
(b) She pretends to not see their poor rewrapping.
(c) She scolds them for trying to deceive her.
(d) She laughs at their attempt at deception.

4. What intrigues the young Nabokov about the novel?
(a) Its deliberate action and concern for honor.
(b) Its mystery and murder.
(c) Its love of America and the wilderness.
(d) The description of nature and the American frontier.

5. Of what are Nabokov's memories in a Russian setting?
(a) A quite German childhood.
(b) A quite Russian childhood.
(c) A quite English childhood.
(d) A quite French childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Nabokov see Mademoiselle again after she is no longer in their household?

2. Who are some of the ancestors on Nabokov's paternal, Russian side?

3. How do the aristocrats confront the ocean waves?

4. It is unusual for aristocrats in Russian to be hanged, and as a child, what does Nabokov call the trail through the woods on the estate where a previous owner had been hanged?

5. To what simple rule does Nabokov's mother ascribe?

(see the answer key)

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