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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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. Of what descent is Nabokov's mother?
(a) Aristocratic Norwegian descent.
(b) Aristocratic Swedish descent.
(c) Aristocratic English descent.
(d) Aristocratic German descent.

3. Why is he detained briefly in 1918, by a Bolshevik soldier?
(a) He is evading the draft.
(b) He is trying to escape the country.
(c) He is accused him of signaling British warships with his net.
(d) He has run away from the Red Army.

4. What does Nabokov learn to read and write before Russian or French?
(a) Dutch.
(b) Swedish.
(c) English.
(d) German.

5. Though many doubt this ailment, What happens to Ivanovich?
(a) He dies from lung cancer.
(b) He slips a disc.
(c) He ends up with scoliosis.
(d) He dies of a heart ailment.

6. What does Nabokov investigate about his family?
(a) Their religion.
(b) Their country of origin.
(c) The family's coat of arms.
(d) Their relationship to the tsar.

7. To what does the memory of the bracelet lead?
(a) An important memory about Mademoiselle.
(b) An important memory about his mother.
(c) An important memory about his father.
(d) An important memory about Colette.

8. Who are Miss Norcott and Miss Hunt?
(a) Two of Vladimir's tutors.
(b) Two of Vladimir's governesses.
(c) Two of Vladimir's girlfriends.
(d) Two of Vladimir's aunts.

9. When do they arrive in Paris?
(a) Early afternoon.
(b) Late afternoon.
(c) Early morning.
(d) In the middle of the night.

10. What is one of his other memories?
(a) Getting his foot stuck in the crib.
(b) Getting lost in the estate's vast forest.
(c) Playing tag with his younger brother.
(d) A dark tunnel through which he crawls, behind a divan in his parent's home.

11. What is the common name for Boletusoften?
(a) Tube mushrooms.
(b) Red geraniums.
(c) Blue grass.
(d) Tropical hibiscus.

12. With what is the aristocratic Nabokov house stocked?
(a) Russian antiques.
(b) English and French amenities.
(c) German beer.
(d) French literature.

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

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

15. During one such trip in the summer of 1909, who does young Nabokov meet?
(a) A young Spanish girl, named Clara.
(b) A young French girl, named Colette.
(c) A young British girl, named Beth.
(d) A young German girl, named Brigitte.

Short Answer Questions

1. After his retirement, from what does Dimitri Nabokov begin to suffer?

2. Where does Nabokov's mother trick Dimitri into believing he is still?

3. Why does little Vladimir close his eyes at the bottom of each stairway?

4. How does the Nabokov family frequently travel from St. Petersburg to Paris?

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

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