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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 the narrator realize about Charlotte?
(a) She is unhappy.
(b) He can learn nothing else about France from her.
(c) She is dying.
(d) She wants to leave Russia.

2. What does the narrator try to visualize about the three women in the photo?
(a) Their dreams.
(b) Their being nude.
(c) Their names.
(d) Their talking to him about their lives.

3. Of what does Pashka become jealous?
(a) A mechanic who steals his girlfriend.
(b) The newest math whiz in school.
(c) A soldier who steals his girlfriend.
(d) The narrator.

4. How does the narrator surpass Charlotte?
(a) In his ability as a story teller.
(b) In his knowledge of French history.
(c) In his skills as a writer.
(d) In his skills as a painter.

5. How does the narrator sometimes use his scarf?
(a) To hide his birthmark.
(b) To summon a taxi.
(c) To pull himself onto the roof of the school.
(d) To pull Pashka out of the water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator consider when he runs out of money?

2. What does Pashka take the narrator to observe?

3. Where does the narrator seek shelter when it begins to rain?

4. To what does Charlotte compare people who die?

5. What are the tekhnars?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does the narrator's interest in Russia cause him problems?

6. How does Pashka almost drown once?

7. What story does the narrator relate to Pashka?

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

9. Who does the narrator notice while doing sequences and what does he notice about her?

10. What does Charlotte's last story for the narrator tell him?

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