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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. To what does Charlotte compare people who die?
(a) Geese who migrate.
(b) Animals who are born.
(c) The revolving earth.
(d) The stars' patterns.

2. Where does the narrator find a photo of three women in black dresses?
(a) In a book in the library.
(b) In the trash outside a neighbor's house.
(c) The Siberian Suitcase.
(d) In the alley behind their house.

3. Why is the young woman given a few months of respite?
(a) She is ill with Tuberculosis.
(b) She is the mistress of the captain of the police.
(c) She knows the head of the KGB in that area.
(d) She gives birth.

4. Where was the young woman taken to live during the war?
(a) Brest.
(b) The Gulags.
(c) Mongolia.
(d) Paris.

5. Where does the narrator see Pashka at the dance?
(a) Up in a tree.
(b) Down by the lake.
(c) In the men's room.
(d) In the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news does the narrator receive from Saranza?

2. What does Mr. Bond encourage the narrator to do?

3. What does the narrator say has happened in France since Charlotte has visited the country?

4. What does Pashka ask of the narrator?

5. What does the young French boy want to do with his watch?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator think he is being accepted by his classmates, what does he see as the three types of cliques in a crowd and how does his acceptance affect his writing?

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

4. How does Pashka almost drown once?

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

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

7. What does the narrator realize concerning his grandmother and France?

8. What story does the narrator relate to Pashka?

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

10. What does Charlotte tell the narrator about death?

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