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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 the narrator's grandmother press into the narrator's hand when the narrator is in bed?
(a) A newpaper clipping.
(b) A rosary.
(c) A tissue.
(d) The Verdun.

2. With what does Charlotte's daughter fall ill?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Measles.
(c) Scarlett fever.
(d) Typhus.

3. Who is teased ruthlessly in school?
(a) Constantine.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) Albertine.
(d) The narrator.

4. To what does the narrator admit when discussing his grandmother's descriptions of France?
(a) Not understanding his grandmother's memories.
(b) Not knowing where reality and fantasy intersect.
(c) Not understanding Russian culture.
(d) Not knowing why his grandmother comes to Russia.

5. What does Charlotte learn of Fyodor?
(a) He is dead.
(b) Nothing.
(c) He is alive and at their village.
(d) He is on the front somewhere.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Charlotte once visit in a Russian village?

2. What do the adults do before discussing Charlotte's tales?

3. What happens when the scruffy woman notices the young boy looking at her?

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

5. Who is married to Norbert?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story does the narrator relate about Charlotte's rock collection?

2. What is the narrator allowed to do when he is 14?

3. How does missing a train save Charlotte and her children's lives?

4. How does Charlotte end up returning to Russia and what is her response when she arrives there?

5. What does the narrator spend a lot of time doing and what is one photograph that seems out of place?

6. About what do others continue to speculate?

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

8. Where does Albertine retreat?

9. What does the narrator find interesting about the French play, "Les Femmes Savantes"?

10. What does the narrator say his grandmother does when the narrator looks at the photo of the scruffy woman?

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