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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 & 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the narrator become attracted?
(a) The idea of moving to the United States.
(b) A blond-haired older woman.
(c) A girl with russet-colored hair.
(d) Communism.

2. What does the narrator do that he has not done before?
(a) Goes Hang gliding.
(b) Goes to the opera.
(c) Prays.
(d) Picks up a woman at a bar.

3. How does the narrator take it upon himself to continue his information-gathering about Russia and France?
(a) He goes to the library.
(b) He records his grandmother's stories.
(c) He breaks into his grandmother's suitcase.
(d) He interviews a French family who lives in Moscow.

4. What does the narrator temporarily call home?
(a) A tomb.
(b) A bathroom stall in the Paris airport.
(c) A bathroom stall in the train station.
(d) A clearing in a dense woods.

5. What does the narrator consider when he runs out of money?
(a) Working for his best friend's father.
(b) Joining the French Foreign Legion.
(c) Writing his grandmother to ask for money.
(d) Suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Fyodor taken for reintegration?

2. For what is Nicholas II responsible in the early part of the 20th century?

3. Who is Sharlota Norbertovna?

4. What does the narrator's grandmother press into the narrator's hand when the narrator is in bed?

5. Who does the narrator visit in Russian as a young boy?

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