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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 outrages the narrator concerning France and the Russian revolution?
(a) That the French support the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II.
(b) That the Russians believe the French are superior.
(c) That the Russians copy French fashion instead of creating their own fashions.
(d) That the French believe Russians are inferior.

2. To what village does Charlotte return?
(a) Sertolovo.
(b) Boyarsk.
(c) Dno.
(d) Lesosibirsk.

3. Why does one soldier mutilate himself?
(a) He enjoys the sight of his blood.
(b) After receiving a divorce request from his wife.
(c) To convince his superiors to send him to the front instead of being a clerk on the back lines.
(d) To keep from having to return to the front.

4. What type of collection does the narrator recall unwrapping with his sister?
(a) Rock.
(b) Coin.
(c) Ornaments.
(d) Feather.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is teased ruthlessly in school?

2. Why are the narrator and his sister thrown out of the line?

3. How does Charlotte receive table scraps?

4. What do the children dare Charlotte to do?

5. What happens to the last passenger train when Charlotte arrives at the train station?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. About what do others continue to speculate?

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

4. What happens after Fyodor is arrested?

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

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

7. What is Charlotte's relationship to Gavrilych?

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

9. Why does the narrator become outraged?

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

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