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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator's grandmother press into the narrator's hand when the narrator is in bed?
(a) A tissue.
(b) A newpaper clipping.
(c) A rosary.
(d) The Verdun.

2. With what do the narrator and his sister struggle?
(a) To enjoy returning to England after the summer is over.
(b) To enjoy their visits to Russia.
(c) To understand their Russian grandfather.
(d) To separate fantasy from reality.

3. Who is Gavrilych?
(a) A retired Russian artillery man.
(b) The town drunk where the narrator's grandmother lives.
(c) A mail carrier.
(d) A milkman.

4. What is one thing the narrator and his sister can visualize as their grandmother is telling a story?
(a) The rush of the flood waters carrying away cows as the Danube floods.
(b) The boom of the explosions in the streets of Madrid.
(c) The sounds of the guns shot by the Russian peasants.
(d) The glint of the floodwaters.

5. Who likes to lie on Charlotte's living room floor?
(a) The milkmaid.
(b) No one.
(c) The odd girl next door.
(d) The narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the scruffy woman with the baby wearing in a photo the narrator writes about?

2. How does the narrator see his country for the first time from an outsider?

3. What does the narrator spend much time doing?

4. With what group of Russians is the narrator's grandmother similar in age?

5. What characteristic about women does the narrator recall in his own life?

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