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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Charlotte receive table scraps?
(a) Teaching French.
(b) Begging on the street corner.
(c) Sweeping the school's hallways.
(d) Drawing portraits.

2. Who is Felix Faure?
(a) A infamous murderer.
(b) The French president.
(c) A famous French author.
(d) The French ambassador to Russia.

3. Who does Charlotte once visit in a Russian village?
(a) Her great-grandfather.
(b) The young people.
(c) A shrine where miracles often happen.
(d) A Russian seer.

4. What does Charlotte realize she accidentally did?
(a) Grabs the Siberian Suitcase.
(b) Forgets their papers.
(c) Forgets to leave a note for Fyodor.
(d) Forgets the dog.

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

6. What type of collection does the narrator recall unwrapping with his sister?
(a) Ornaments.
(b) Rock.
(c) Feather.
(d) Coin.

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

8. What does Charlotte learn of Fyodor?
(a) He is on the front somewhere.
(b) He is dead.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He is alive and at their village.

9. What is Charlotte's response to the children's request?
(a) She says she would never go to the United States.
(b) She says the families already have too many children.
(c) She agrees wholeheartedly.
(d) She says stealing is wrong.

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

11. About what does the grandmother tell stories to the narrator and his sister?
(a) The Spanish revolution.
(b) The flood of the Danube.
(c) The Russian revolution.
(d) The Paris flood.

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

13. What is Charlotte's father's occupation?
(a) A physician.
(b) A administrator.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A farmer.

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

15. What does Charlotte want Albertine to check when Albertine returns to Russia?
(a) The mice by the stove.
(b) Her coloring books.
(c) The mailbox.
(d) Her toybox.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Charlotte store newspaper clippings and photographs from her past?

2. With what do the narrator and his sister struggle?

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

4. Why does one soldier mutilate himself?

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

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