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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) The mailbox.
(b) The mice by the stove.
(c) Her coloring books.
(d) Her toybox.

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

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

4. Who does the narrator curse at a dinner party?
(a) No one.
(b) His father's best friend who is a Russian diplomat.
(c) The Frenchmen.
(d) His grandmother.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do Charlotte and her children see a great many mutilated bodies?

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

4. What does Charlotte do on the front lines?

5. With what do the narrator and his sister struggle?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens after the death of Norbert?

4. What happens after Fyodor is arrested?

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

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

7. About what do others continue to speculate?

8. What memories of women does the narrator think about?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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