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

2. Where does the narrator catch Charlotte's eye?
(a) In a reflection in a car side mirror.
(b) In the bathroom mirror as he shaves.
(c) From the window of the train.
(d) In a plate glass window of the grocery store.

3. What story does the narrator tell about a young French boy?
(a) The boy saves the king's life.
(b) The boy is sentenced to death.
(c) The boy won a world-wide contest.
(d) The boy almost kills the king despite all the guards.

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

5. What does Paska occasionally do when he is out with the narrator?
(a) Breaks through the ice.
(b) Takes the parrots to the pond for a bath.
(c) Work out complicated mathematical problems.
(d) Speaks a long monologue in French.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator realize about Charlotte?

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

3. To where does Pashka invite the narrator?

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

5. Who is shocked when the young, French boy does as he promises?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 realize concerning his grandmother and France?

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

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

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

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

8. What story does the narrator relate to Pashka?

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

10. Why does the narrator hire a private detective?

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