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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does the narrator make love?
(a) No one.
(b) The prostitute the soldiers had engaged.
(c) The blond-haired girl.
(d) The girl with the russet-colored hair.

2. Where was the young woman taken to live during the war?
(a) Mongolia.
(b) The Gulags.
(c) Paris.
(d) Brest.

3. What does Pashka ask of the narrator?
(a) To stay and look at the stars.
(b) To lend him some money.
(c) To introduce him to a girl.
(d) To teach him to dance.

4. What does the narrator realize about Charlotte?
(a) She wants to leave Russia.
(b) He can learn nothing else about France from her.
(c) She is dying.
(d) She is unhappy.

5. Who is Charlotte's first love?
(a) The man who gives Charlotte the Verdun.
(b) Her brother's best friend.
(c) Her second cousin.
(d) Her first husband.

6. What is the narrator learning with his class?
(a) Carpentry.
(b) Braille.
(c) First aid.
(d) Sequencing movements.

7. What news does the narrator receive from Saranza?
(a) He never hears from Saranza again in his life.
(b) Almost weekly letters.
(c) Very little.
(d) Continuous post cards.

8. Where has the narrator's older sister gone?
(a) To France.
(b) To Leningrad.
(c) To England.
(d) To Moscow.

9. How does Charlotte become pregnant?
(a) She has an affair.
(b) No one knows.
(c) She seduces the young minister at her church.
(d) She is gang raped.

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

11. Who surrounds Charlotte and asks for money?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) No one.
(c) Orphan children.
(d) Samovars.

12. What does the narrator succeed in imagining?
(a) Living in France.
(b) The breasts of a homeless woman he once sees.
(c) Becoming a famous writer.
(d) Joining his sister in Leningrad.

13. What was a problem many publishers have with the narrator's manuscript?
(a) It has many errors due to translation problems.
(b) No problems.
(c) He is a Russian writing in French.
(d) It is hand written.

14. What does a young girl dismantle and reassemble?
(a) A Klashnikov rifle.
(b) A radio.
(c) A watch.
(d) A carburetor.

15. What does the narrator scrounge up enough money to buy?
(a) A notebook.
(b) A book about Russia.
(c) A pair of shoes.
(d) A new jacket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator see Pashka at the dance?

2. Where does the narrator seek shelter when it begins to rain?

3. What does Charlotte do after the young woman is killed?

4. What does the narrator temporarily call home?

5. Where does the narrator spend days?

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