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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. Who is shocked when the young, French boy does as he promises?
(a) His mother.
(b) His teachers.
(c) The soldiers.
(d) The executioner.

2. Where does the narrator spend days?
(a) In the public library.
(b) In a training class for teachers.
(c) At the French embassy.
(d) In day boot camp.

3. What does the narrator realize about Charlotte and himself?
(a) They are complete opposites in all ways.
(b) They have no needs for words to communicate with each other.
(c) They do not really like each other.
(d) They are not biologically related.

4. What does the narrator often have with himself?
(a) Long, imaginary conversations with his father.
(b) Confidence-building sessions.
(c) Long, imaginary conversations with his mother.
(d) Long, imaginary conversations with Charlotte.

5. What does the narrator invent in order to publish his book?
(a) A translator.
(b) A contact in the publishing business.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A home address.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator see that reminds him of Charlotte?

2. What does the narrator need in order to obtain a French passport?

3. What does the narrator now enjoy?

4. Why is the young woman given a few months of respite?

5. Who is Pashka?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the only person in the narrator's class who treats him kindly?

2. What catches the narrator's attention almost obsessively?

3. How does the narrator feel about the women in the photo and how does he try to return to the comfort of his childhood?

4. What does the narrator do after he accidentally insults a girl at a dance?

5. How does the narrator's encounter with the girl with russet-colored hair occur and how does it work out between them?

6. How does Pashka almost drown once?

7. What does Charlotte tell the narrator about death?

8. What does the narrator do about a place for Charlotte when she comes to visit?

9. What does the narrator feel when he is staying in the tombs and what symptoms did he think he had?

10. What do the narrator and Pashka do on their fishing trips?

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