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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charlotte want Albertine to check when Albertine returns to Russia?
(a) Her coloring books.
(b) The mice by the stove.
(c) The mailbox.
(d) Her toybox.

2. With what are some children concerned about when Charlotte talks to them?
(a) Supernatural experiences.
(b) Finding people to adopt them.
(c) Life in the United States.
(d) Food.

3. With what do the narrator and his sister struggle?
(a) To separate fantasy from reality.
(b) To understand their Russian grandfather.
(c) To enjoy returning to England after the summer is over.
(d) To enjoy their visits to Russia.

4. Why is the narrator allowed to stay when they discuss Charlotte in the kitchen in Chapter 8?
(a) He is 22.
(b) He is 14.
(c) He is 18.
(d) He is 25.

5. In what context does the narrator imagine the French villages his grandmother describes?
(a) In the context of the Napoleonic Wars.
(b) In the context of the French tourists the narrator has met.
(c) In the context of WWI.
(d) In the context of Russian villages.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what do the narrator and his sister stand in line?

2. What type of dwellings does Albertine move into with each move?

3. What characteristic about women does the narrator recall in his own life?

4. Whose visit to France does Charlotte describe to the narrator?

5. What do the narrator and his sister secretly share while in the back of the line?

Short Essay Questions

1. What impresses the narrator about his maternal grandfather?

2. Why does the narrator become outraged?

3. Where does the narrator go for the summer and what is a tale she relates to the narrator on his first night there?

4. What does the narrator say about what makes French women alluring in photographs?

5. What does Charlotte do during the war and how does she react to her work?

6. What happens after the children are put to bed?

7. What happens when Charlotte meets up with a soldier while she is on her way to Boyarsk?

8. How does Albertine surprise Charlotte one day and what is left behind?

9. What is the other childhood memories of Charlotte's that has left an impact on the narrator?

10. Where does Albertine retreat?

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