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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 & 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What thoughts overwhelm the narrator?
(a) Thoughts about women.
(b) Thoughts about death.
(c) Thoughts about his father's final hours.
(d) Thoughts about escaping Russia.

2. To what village does Charlotte return?
(a) Dno.
(b) Boyarsk.
(c) Lesosibirsk.
(d) Sertolovo.

3. What seems exquisite to the narrator and his sister?
(a) The uniform of the French palace guards.
(b) The sight of hundreds of place settings set up for a state visit.
(c) The sound of French singing.
(d) The French foods on the menu Charlotte has saved.

4. Who does the narrator curse at a dinner party?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) The Frenchmen.
(c) His father's best friend who is a Russian diplomat.
(d) No one.

5. What shatters when Pashka touches it?
(a) The ice on the lake.
(b) A glass flower vase.
(c) The stained glass in the foyer of the school.
(d) An accordian which is very old.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the narrator and his sister thrown out of the line?

2. What was the nickname of Nicholas II at the time the narrator is in school?

3. What does Albertine's family not understand?

4. Who is shocked when the young, French boy does as he promises?

5. How does the narrator sometimes use his scarf?

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