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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Charlotte and her children see a great many mutilated bodies?
(a) Near a crematorium.
(b) Stacked neatly for burial by the side of the road.
(c) Falling out of a bombed passenger train.
(d) They were mannequins; not bodies.

2. What does Charlotte do on the front lines?
(a) Cooks.
(b) Works as a nurse.
(c) Sews clothing for the soldiers.
(d) Drives an ambulance.

3. With what are some children concerned about when Charlotte talks to them?
(a) Life in the United States.
(b) Supernatural experiences.
(c) Finding people to adopt them.
(d) Food.

4. Who is Norbert?
(a) The narrator's neighbor.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) The narrator's great-grandfather.
(d) The narrator's uncle.

5. What was the nickname of Nicholas II at the time the narrator is in school?
(a) Nicholas the Bloody.
(b) Nicholas the Fool.
(c) He does not have a nickname.
(d) Nicholas the Just.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sergei notice being loaded?

2. What does Albertine leave behind?

3. How does the narrator take it upon himself to continue his information-gathering about Russia and France?

4. What is the worst image to haunt Charlotte?

5. What does the narrator recount to Pashka?

(see the answer key)

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