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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the narrator and his sister do to some of the collection?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Give it to kids in the neighborhood.
(c) Paint them another color.
(d) Throw some of it out the window.

2. What does the narrator spend much time doing?
(a) Looking through old photo albums.
(b) Sailing.
(c) Playing tennis.
(d) Sleeping.

3. What does Albertine suddenly do one day?
(a) Write for help to her mother.
(b) Decides to leave immediately for Russia.
(c) Inject herself with too much morphine.
(d) Decides to leave immediately for France.

4. With what does Charlotte's daughter fall ill?
(a) Measles.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Scarlett fever.
(d) Yellow fever.

5. To where do the narrator and his sister return?
(a) To Moscow.
(b) To their own town.
(c) To their grandmother's Dachau.
(d) To Paris.

6. Why is the narrator allowed to stay when they discuss Charlotte in the kitchen in Chapter 8?
(a) He is 18.
(b) He is 14.
(c) He is 22.
(d) He is 25.

7. What do the adults do before discussing Charlotte's tales?
(a) Ask Charlotte to tell them a story.
(b) Put the children to bed.
(c) Pass the vodka around.
(d) Tell the children to go outside and play.

8. Where do Charlotte and her children see a great many mutilated bodies?
(a) Near a crematorium.
(b) Falling out of a bombed passenger train.
(c) They were mannequins; not bodies.
(d) Stacked neatly for burial by the side of the road.

9. Whose visit to France does Charlotte describe to the narrator?
(a) President Teddy Roosevelt.
(b) Peter the Great.
(c) Queen Victoria.
(d) Tsar Nicholas II.

10. Where is Charlotte supposed to lay an object?
(a) On a shrine.
(b) On the kitchen counter.
(c) Under her bed.
(d) On a tombstone.

11. Who is teased ruthlessly in school?
(a) Constantine.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Albertine.

12. To what does the narrator admit when discussing his grandmother's descriptions of France?
(a) Not knowing where reality and fantasy intersect.
(b) Not knowing why his grandmother comes to Russia.
(c) Not understanding Russian culture.
(d) Not understanding his grandmother's memories.

13. What does Charlotte see one day after she has been to the market buying spices?
(a) Her husband walking down the street.
(b) A vision of a pure Russia.
(c) Her son being hit by a car.
(d) Her daughter being hit by a car.

14. How does the narrator see his country for the first time from an outsider?
(a) In viewing the interaction between King Phillip and Tsar Nicholas II.
(b) In reading a book about Russia written by an American author.
(c) In viewing the French play, "Les Femmes Savantes."
(d) In reading a book about Russia written by an English author.

15. What was the nickname of Nicholas II at the time the narrator is in school?
(a) He does not have a nickname.
(b) Nicholas the Fool.
(c) Nicholas the Bloody.
(d) Nicholas the Just.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what do conversations drift at dinner parties according to the narrator?

2. When is the last time Charlotte speaks to Albertine?

3. In whose arms does Felix Faure die?

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

5. Upon what does Albertine depend?

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