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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 moves in with the narrator's family?
(a) The narrator's paternal aunt.
(b) The narrator's first cousin.
(c) The narrator's paternal grandmother.
(d) The narrator's maternal aunt.

2. What thoughts overwhelm the narrator?
(a) Thoughts about women.
(b) Thoughts about escaping Russia.
(c) Thoughts about death.
(d) Thoughts about his father's final hours.

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

4. What does the narrator scrounge up enough money to buy?
(a) A notebook.
(b) A book about Russia.
(c) A pair of shoes.
(d) A new jacket.

5. Where is there an open-air dance floor?
(a) In the town square.
(b) In Moscow's central park.
(c) In the stadium.
(d) At the Mountain of Joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator realize about Charlotte?

2. What does Pashka take the narrator to observe?

3. How does the narrator sometimes use his scarf?

4. What does the narrator succeed in imagining?

5. What does the narrator recount to Pashka?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator do about three years after staying in the tombs and why was it difficult to do? How did he overcome the difficulty?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the narrator begin to learn in Chapter 12 in class to protect the fatherland and how does he feel about the process of learning this?

9. What does Charlotte tell the narrator about death?

10. How does Pashka feel about the narrator's new popularity and what does Pashka do about it?

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