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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 & 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Sharlota Norbertovna?
(a) The milkmaid.
(b) The town spy.
(c) The narrator's grandmother.
(d) The Russian laundress.

2. What do the narrator and his sister secretly share while in the back of the line?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Their experience at their grandmother's home.
(c) An apple.
(d) A banned book.

3. Why are the narrator and his sister thrown out of the line?
(a) The others in the line think they intend to cheat.
(b) They have already received their rations.
(c) They are too young.
(d) They have no ration cards.

4. How does the narrator take it upon himself to continue his information-gathering about Russia and France?
(a) He interviews a French family who lives in Moscow.
(b) He records his grandmother's stories.
(c) He breaks into his grandmother's suitcase.
(d) He goes to the library.

5. Who does the narrator visit in Russian as a young boy?
(a) His maiden aunt.
(b) His French grandmother.
(c) His Russian uncle.
(d) His Russian grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as an absolute monarch?

2. What outrages the narrator concerning France and the Russian revolution?

3. In what context does the narrator imagine the French villages his grandmother describes?

4. Who likes to lie on Charlotte's living room floor?

5. What type of collection does the narrator recall unwrapping with his sister?

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