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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the narrator learning with his class?
(a) Braille.
(b) Carpentry.
(c) First aid.
(d) Sequencing movements.
2. What does the narrator's dad begin doing?
(a) Disappearing for hours at a time.
(b) Walking in the park for hours each day.
(c) Sleeping on the couch.
(d) Watching television all the time.
3. Who is Beria?
(a) A French baker.
(b) A Russian leader who stalks women.
(c) The narrator's mother's uncle.
(d) The crazy man next door to the narrator.
4. What does the narrator do that he has not done before?
(a) Prays.
(b) Goes Hang gliding.
(c) Goes to the opera.
(d) Picks up a woman at a bar.
5. What happens one day to Pashka?
(a) He is fired.
(b) He nearly drowns for real.
(c) He has a heart attack.
(d) He solves a math problem no one has done before.
6. What does the narrator need in order to obtain a French passport?
(a) Proof of his French birth.
(b) His French naturalization papers.
(c) Proof of his Russian birth.
(d) Enough money to purchase a ticket to Russia.
7. What does the narrator find that he can only afford for a few months?
(a) An apartment.
(b) A private-duty nurse.
(c) A car to rent.
(d) A villa to recuperate from surgery.
8. What does a young girl dismantle and reassemble?
(a) A watch.
(b) A radio.
(c) A carburetor.
(d) A Klashnikov rifle.
9. What arrives from the Prefecture de Police?
(a) An arrest warrant.
(b) A package.
(c) A letter from Charlotte.
(d) A request for information.
10. Where is there an open-air dance floor?
(a) In the town square.
(b) In Moscow's central park.
(c) At the Mountain of Joy.
(d) In the stadium.
11. Why does the narrator refuse to call or contact Charlotte?
(a) He is not allowed to have any contact with her.
(b) He is afraid of upsetting her.
(c) He is not sure she is really Charlotte.
(d) He is afraid of hindering his application process.
12. Why does the narrator help Pashka?
(a) In return for Pashka's help with math.
(b) To feel useful.
(c) In return for Pashka's help getting the other students to like him.
(d) To show how superior he is.
13. What does the narrator scrounge up enough money to buy?
(a) A pair of shoes.
(b) A new jacket.
(c) A book about Russia.
(d) A notebook.
14. What does the narrator feel that Charlotte temporarily gives him?
(a) The ability to lift his mood.
(b) The ability to feel eternal.
(c) A sense of purpose.
(d) A sense of belonging.
15. Where was the young woman taken to live during the war?
(a) Mongolia.
(b) The Gulags.
(c) Brest.
(d) Paris.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where has the narrator's older sister gone?
2. What does the narrator recount to Pashka?
3. What does the narrator spend his time doing?
4. What does the narrator do upon returning to Russia?
5. What does the narrator realize about Charlotte and himself?
This section contains 514 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |
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