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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 & 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the children dare Charlotte to do?
(a) Visit a cemetery at midnight.
(b) Apply to emmigrate to the United States.
(c) Steal food from the local grocer.
(d) Write prospective families to convince them to adopt the chilren.

2. What does the narrator believe about the soldiers he watches?
(a) They join the military seeking honor.
(b) No outside thoughts can penetrate their minds.
(c) They join the military seeking redemption.
(d) They were coerced into the military.

3. With whom does the narrator make love?
(a) The girl with the russet-colored hair.
(b) The prostitute the soldiers had engaged.
(c) No one.
(d) The blond-haired girl.

4. Why must the narrator construct his stories three different ways?
(a) To learn to be creative.
(b) For his three different audiences.
(c) To tell the stories in such a way as to not get in trouble.
(d) He does not create stories in different ways.

5. How does the narrator surpass Charlotte?
(a) In his skills as a writer.
(b) In his knowledge of French history.
(c) In his ability as a story teller.
(d) In his skills as a painter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charlotte realize she accidentally did?

2. Who is Charlotte's first love?

3. What do the narrator and his sister secretly share while in the back of the line?

4. What does the narrator realize about Charlotte?

5. What confuses the narrator about Beria?

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