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

2. How does the narrator see his country for the first time from an outsider?
(a) In viewing the French play, "Les Femmes Savantes."
(b) In reading a book about Russia written by an American author.
(c) In viewing the interaction between King Phillip and Tsar Nicholas II.
(d) In reading a book about Russia written by an English author.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens a few months after Fyodor goes for reintegration?

2. For what is Nicholas II responsible in the early part of the 20th century?

3. Who is Norbert?

4. What is the scruffy woman with the baby wearing in a photo the narrator writes about?

5. What does Charlotte want Albertine to check when Albertine returns to Russia?

Short Essay Questions

1. What political importance is lost to the children?

2. What happens after the death of Norbert?

3. What is Charlotte's relationship to Gavrilych?

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

5. Where does Albertine retreat?

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

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

8. What happens after Fyodor is arrested?

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

10. Why does the narrator break into his grandmother's Siberian Suitcase?

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