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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why must the narrator construct his stories three different ways?
(a) For his three different audiences.
(b) To learn to be creative.
(c) To tell the stories in such a way as to not get in trouble.
(d) He does not create stories in different ways.

2. What does the narrator learn months later from Mr. Bond?
(a) Charlotte died in September a year earlier.
(b) Charlotte is very ill.
(c) Charlotte has moved to Moscow.
(d) Charlotte is under arrest.

3. Who moves in with the narrator's family?
(a) The narrator's first cousin.
(b) The narrator's paternal aunt.
(c) The narrator's maternal aunt.
(d) The narrator's paternal grandmother.

4. What does Pashka take the narrator to observe?
(a) A calf being born.
(b) A student at the school have sex with a prostitute.
(c) A prostitute having sex with soldiers.
(d) A student at the school making out with an older woman.

5. What does the narrator feel that Charlotte temporarily gives him?
(a) The ability to lift his mood.
(b) A sense of purpose.
(c) A sense of belonging.
(d) The ability to feel eternal.

6. What does the narrator do upon returning to Russia?
(a) Starts the process of obtaining French citizenship.
(b) Reads books on France.
(c) Joins the military.
(d) Applies for a job with the University

7. Where does the narrator see Pashka at the dance?
(a) In the men's room.
(b) In the kitchen.
(c) Up in a tree.
(d) Down by the lake.

8. Why does the narrator's mother go to the hospital?
(a) To visit a dying aunt.
(b) To apply for a job.
(c) To visit her best friend.
(d) For tests.

9. How long does the narrator spend in France after leaving his grandmother for the last time?
(a) A few weeks.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 20 years.

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

11. What does Paska occasionally do when he is out with the narrator?
(a) Speaks a long monologue in French.
(b) Work out complicated mathematical problems.
(c) Takes the parrots to the pond for a bath.
(d) Breaks through the ice.

12. Of what does Pashka become jealous?
(a) A mechanic who steals his girlfriend.
(b) The narrator.
(c) A soldier who steals his girlfriend.
(d) The newest math whiz in school.

13. Where does the narrator catch Charlotte's eye?
(a) In the bathroom mirror as he shaves.
(b) In a reflection in a car side mirror.
(c) From the window of the train.
(d) In a plate glass window of the grocery store.

14. How does the narrator insult his dance partner?
(a) Being too intimate with her.
(b) Telling her she needs more make-up.
(c) Telling her he like her straight hair better than the curls she now sports.
(d) Letting the school bully cut in on a dance.

15. What causes Pashka to cry?
(a) Failing to solve an easy math problem in a contest.
(b) Being told he is stupid.
(c) Cutting his hand.
(d) Hearing the story about the young French boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator consider when he runs out of money?

2. How does the narrator sometimes use his scarf?

3. What does the narrator have difficulty reconciling?

4. What does the narrator find that he can only afford for a few months?

5. What does the narrator try to visualize about the three women in the photo?

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