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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. Where does the narrator seek shelter when it begins to rain?
(a) Under an overpass.
(b) A family tomb.
(c) Under a large sycamore.
(d) Under a rock ledge.

2. What arrives from the Prefecture de Police?
(a) A letter from Charlotte.
(b) An arrest warrant.
(c) A request for information.
(d) A package.

3. What does Mr. Bond encourage the narrator to do?
(a) Forget going to Russia since it's unstable.
(b) Visit Charlotte.
(c) Hold off on having surgery.
(d) Go to England to conduct research at Oxford.

4. What does the narrator temporarily call home?
(a) A bathroom stall in the Paris airport.
(b) A clearing in a dense woods.
(c) A tomb.
(d) A bathroom stall in the train station.

5. What does the narrator think Charlotte would never leave?
(a) Her status as a foreigner in the tiny village.
(b) Her job.
(c) Fyodor's grave.
(d) Her friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator now enjoy?

2. Why must the narrator construct his stories three different ways?

3. Why does the narrator wander around France?

4. Who is the woman in the shapka?

5. What does Paska occasionally do when he is out with the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator imagine Charlotte in France and what does he do that he does not usually do when preparing for her visit?

2. How does the narrator end up staying in a tomb for a while?

3. Why does the narrator begin to write Charlotte's life and what does he want to know about her as he is writing?

4. Why does the narrator hire a private detective?

5. How did the narrator's book do and when does he remember something Charlotte told him when he saw his first coffin?

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

7. What happens when the narrator's mother goes for some medical tests?

8. Why does the narrator feel guilty concerning his grandmother?

9. Why does the narrator not call or write Charlotte after he finds her and what does he do while waiting to see her?

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

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