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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator's grandmother press into the narrator's hand when the narrator is in bed?
(a) The Verdun.
(b) A tissue.
(c) A rosary.
(d) A newpaper clipping.

2. Who is Norbert?
(a) The narrator's neighbor.
(b) The narrator's great-grandfather.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) The narrator's uncle.

3. What characteristic about women does the narrator recall in his own life?
(a) Nurturing.
(b) Vapid.
(c) Strong.
(d) Submissive.

4. What does Albertine leave behind?
(a) The Siberian suitcase.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Several months unpaid rent.
(d) Her dog.

5. Who likes to lie on Charlotte's living room floor?
(a) The milkmaid.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The odd girl next door.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Albertine not have in Russia?

2. What two worlds does the narrator become obsessed with as far as their having a meal together?

3. With what group of Russians is the narrator's grandmother similar in age?

4. For what do the narrator and his sister stand in line?

5. How does the narrator take it upon himself to continue his information-gathering about Russia and France?

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