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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator surpass Charlotte?
(a) In his skills as a writer.
(b) In his knowledge of French history.
(c) In his skills as a painter.
(d) In his ability as a story teller.

2. What happens one day to Pashka?
(a) He nearly drowns for real.
(b) He has a heart attack.
(c) He solves a math problem no one has done before.
(d) He is fired.

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

4. What are the tekhnars?
(a) A group of Russian soldiers trained as assassins.
(b) A group of Russian soldiers trained as spies.
(c) One of the smaller cliques in the narrator's school.
(d) Mongolians who have settled in Siberia.

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

6. Who is the one person who is kind to the narrator at school?
(a) The teacher.
(b) The class dunce.
(c) The nurse.
(d) The janitor.

7. What does the narrator realize about Charlotte and himself?
(a) They are complete opposites in all ways.
(b) They do not really like each other.
(c) They have no needs for words to communicate with each other.
(d) They are not biologically related.

8. How does the narrator sometimes use his scarf?
(a) To summon a taxi.
(b) To pull Pashka out of the water.
(c) To hide his birthmark.
(d) To pull himself onto the roof of the school.

9. What does the narrator think Charlotte would never leave?
(a) Her friends.
(b) Her status as a foreigner in the tiny village.
(c) Fyodor's grave.
(d) Her job.

10. What does Charlotte do after the young woman is killed?
(a) Goes back to France.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Adopts her baby.
(d) Finds the young woman's family to give them her baby.

11. What does the narrator's dad begin doing?
(a) Disappearing for hours at a time.
(b) Sleeping on the couch.
(c) Walking in the park for hours each day.
(d) Watching television all the time.

12. What thoughts overwhelm the narrator?
(a) Thoughts about his father's final hours.
(b) Thoughts about escaping Russia.
(c) Thoughts about women.
(d) Thoughts about death.

13. What does Pashka demand to know from the narrator?
(a) Why the king's life is in danger.
(b) Why the boy is being executed.
(c) What happens to the young, French boy.
(d) If the king rewards the boy.

14. Where does the narrator seek shelter when it begins to rain?
(a) Under an overpass.
(b) Under a rock ledge.
(c) A family tomb.
(d) Under a large sycamore.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator become attracted?

2. To where does Pashka invite the narrator?

3. What does the narrator spend days doing?

4. What does Pashka ask of the narrator?

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

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