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

3. What does the narrator say has happened in France since Charlotte has visited the country?
(a) People are kinder.
(b) Change.
(c) It is still the same.
(d) People are meaner.

4. What does the narrator do that makes him feel comforted?
(a) Picks up a woman.
(b) Drinks a bottle of absinthe.
(c) Eats ten chocolate bars.
(d) Lies down with his head on a velvet prie-dieu.

5. What does the narrator need in order to obtain a French passport?
(a) Proof of his French birth.
(b) Proof of his Russian birth.
(c) Enough money to purchase a ticket to Russia.
(d) His French naturalization papers.

6. What confuses the narrator about Beria?
(a) How the baker loves to bake but not to eat.
(b) How he seems almost happy that the narrator's mother has died.
(c) The narrator's response to Beria's heinous crimes.
(d) How kindness make Beria more angry.

7. What does the narrator find that he can only afford for a few months?
(a) A private-duty nurse.
(b) An apartment.
(c) A villa to recuperate from surgery.
(d) A car to rent.

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

9. What calms the narrator after the tragedies of his family life?
(a) Running.
(b) Meditating.
(c) Mindlessly following orders.
(d) Rowing.

10. What does the narrator do that he has not done before?
(a) Prays.
(b) Goes Hang gliding.
(c) Picks up a woman at a bar.
(d) Goes to the opera.

11. Who is Beria?
(a) A French baker.
(b) The narrator's mother's uncle.
(c) The crazy man next door to the narrator.
(d) A Russian leader who stalks women.

12. What sudden urge does the narrator have?
(a) To go to the United States.
(b) To write his mother.
(c) To find out if Charlotte is still alive.
(d) To visit his sister.

13. Who is shocked when the young, French boy does as he promises?
(a) His mother.
(b) His teachers.
(c) The soldiers.
(d) The executioner.

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

15. Who is Pashka?
(a) The janitor at the narrator's school.
(b) The headmaster at the narrator's school.
(c) A math teacher.
(d) A fisherman.