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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. At what is hinted in this chapter about Fyodor?
(a) That he is abusive to his wife.
(b) That he is arrested.
(c) That he works for the KGB.
(d) That he badly wanted to move to France.

2. What woman does the narrator introduce at the opening?
(a) His paternal grandmother.
(b) His mother's sister.
(c) His maternal grandmother.
(d) His mother.

3. Where does Albertine believe she will ultimately end up?
(a) The Gulag.
(b) France.
(c) Siberia.
(d) The United States.

4. What do the children dare Charlotte to do?
(a) Write prospective families to convince them to adopt the chilren.
(b) Visit a cemetery at midnight.
(c) Steal food from the local grocer.
(d) Apply to emmigrate to the United States.

5. What do the adults do before discussing Charlotte's tales?
(a) Ask Charlotte to tell them a story.
(b) Pass the vodka around.
(c) Put the children to bed.
(d) Tell the children to go outside and play.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in Charlotte's former home when she returns to her village?

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

3. How does the narrator describe Charlotte's father?

4. What two worlds does the narrator become obsessed with as far as their having a meal together?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Charlotte's relationship to Gavrilych?

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

3. What political importance is lost to the children?

4. What happens when the narrator and his sister go for oranges?

5. What impresses the narrator about his maternal grandfather?

6. Where does Albertine retreat?

7. What story about Charlotte and Fyodor does the narrator recall?

8. How does Sergei find another way for the family to flee and what does Charlotte realize as they do so?

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

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

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