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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Charlotte once visit in a Russian village?
(a) The young people.
(b) Her great-grandfather.
(c) A Russian seer.
(d) A shrine where miracles often happen.

2. What does the narrator spend much time doing?
(a) Looking through old photo albums.
(b) Playing tennis.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Sailing.

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

4. Who is Charlotte?
(a) The narrator's French grandmother.
(b) The narrator's mother.
(c) The narrator's teacher.
(d) The narrator's Russian grandmother.

5. What does Charlotte learn of Fyodor?
(a) Nothing.
(b) He is alive and at their village.
(c) He is on the front somewhere.
(d) He is dead.

6. How old is the narrator when he returns to Charlotte's home for the summer?
(a) 13.
(b) 9.
(c) 18.
(d) It is not stated.

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

8. With what group of Russians is the narrator's grandmother similar in age?
(a) The secretaries.
(b) The laundry women.
(c) The babushkas.
(d) None.

9. What does Charlotte want Albertine to check when Albertine returns to Russia?
(a) The mailbox.
(b) Her coloring books.
(c) The mice by the stove.
(d) Her toybox.

10. What do the adults do before discussing Charlotte's tales?
(a) Put the children to bed.
(b) Tell the children to go outside and play.
(c) Ask Charlotte to tell them a story.
(d) Pass the vodka around.

11. What does Albertine's family not understand?
(a) Why she would stay in Russia.
(b) Why she wants to return to France.
(c) Why she refuses to learn French.
(d) Why she is friendly with the narrator's family.

12. When is the last time Charlotte speaks to Albertine?
(a) When Albertine goes to a rehab hospital.
(b) When Albertine leaves for Russia for one last visit.
(c) When Albertine climbs into a cab to go to the airport to visit France.
(d) Just before Albertine dies in the hospital.

13. What outrages the narrator concerning France and the Russian revolution?
(a) That the French believe Russians are inferior.
(b) That the Russians believe the French are superior.
(c) That the Russians copy French fashion instead of creating their own fashions.
(d) That the French support the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II.

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

15. What is the worst image to haunt Charlotte?
(a) The sight of several very young German soldiers being tortured.
(b) The sight of elderly people freezing to death on the side of the road.
(c) The sight of men who have lost both arms and legs.
(d) The sight of several very young children being shot for stealing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Gavrilych?

2. To what village does Charlotte return?

3. About what does the grandmother tell stories to the narrator and his sister?

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

5. How does Charlotte receive table scraps?

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