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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 & 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the tekhnars?
(a) A group of Russian soldiers trained as spies.
(b) A group of Russian soldiers trained as assassins.
(c) One of the smaller cliques in the narrator's school.
(d) Mongolians who have settled in Siberia.

2. To what does the narrator admit when discussing his grandmother's descriptions of France?
(a) Not knowing why his grandmother comes to Russia.
(b) Not understanding his grandmother's memories.
(c) Not understanding Russian culture.
(d) Not knowing where reality and fantasy intersect.

3. Who is shocked when the young, French boy does as he promises?
(a) His mother.
(b) The soldiers.
(c) The executioner.
(d) His teachers.

4. What does a young girl dismantle and reassemble?
(a) A Klashnikov rifle.
(b) A watch.
(c) A radio.
(d) A carburetor.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator help Pashka?

2. What happens to Fyodor when he is dressed as Santa Claus?

3. To where do the narrator and his sister return?

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

5. How does the narrator feel as he is wandering the streets near his temporary home?

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