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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the narrator's grandmother's most prized possessions?
(a) The Verdun.
(b) The English cross.
(c) A piece of clothe from her deceased father's funeral outfit.
(d) A fragment from the bomb that killed her son.

2. What two worlds does the narrator become obsessed with as far as their having a meal together?
(a) The upper and lower classes in Russia.
(b) The world of the Russian peasant and Russian nobility.
(c) The upper and lower classes in France.
(d) France and Russia.

3. What does Albertine's family not understand?
(a) Why she is friendly with the narrator's family.
(b) Why she refuses to learn French.
(c) Why she would stay in Russia.
(d) Why she wants to return to France.

4. With what group of Russians is the narrator's grandmother similar in age?
(a) The secretaries.
(b) None.
(c) The laundry women.
(d) The babushkas.

5. What do the narrator and his sister secretly share while in the back of the line?
(a) Their experience at their grandmother's home.
(b) Nothing.
(c) An apple.
(d) A banned book.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator curse at a dinner party?

2. What do the narrator and his sister do to some of the collection?

3. What happens when the scruffy woman notices the young boy looking at her?

4. Who is in Charlotte's former home when she returns to her village?

5. Who is Norbert?

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