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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Charlotte's first love?
(a) The man who gives Charlotte the Verdun.
(b) Her first husband.
(c) Her brother's best friend.
(d) Her second cousin.

2. What does the young French boy want to do with his watch?
(a) Smash it.
(b) Give it to the king.
(c) Give it to his brother.
(d) Give it to his mother.

3. Where does the narrator find a photo of three women in black dresses?
(a) In the alley behind their house.
(b) The Siberian Suitcase.
(c) In a book in the library.
(d) In the trash outside a neighbor's house.

4. What does the narrator recount to Pashka?
(a) Stories about the early founding of the United States.
(b) Stories about fishing.
(c) French history.
(d) Russian history.

5. Why does the narrator refuse to call or contact Charlotte?
(a) He is afraid of upsetting her.
(b) He is not sure she is really Charlotte.
(c) He is afraid of hindering his application process.
(d) He is not allowed to have any contact with her.

6. What does the narrator often have with himself?
(a) Confidence-building sessions.
(b) Long, imaginary conversations with Charlotte.
(c) Long, imaginary conversations with his father.
(d) Long, imaginary conversations with his mother.

7. Where does the narrator spend days?
(a) In the public library.
(b) At the French embassy.
(c) In day boot camp.
(d) In a training class for teachers.

8. How does the narrator insult his dance partner?
(a) Being too intimate with her.
(b) Telling her he like her straight hair better than the curls she now sports.
(c) Telling her she needs more make-up.
(d) Letting the school bully cut in on a dance.

9. Who comes home from boarding school?
(a) No one.
(b) The narrator's best friend's sister.
(c) The narrator's neighbor's daughter.
(d) The narrator's sister.

10. What confuses the narrator about Beria?
(a) How kindness make Beria more angry.
(b) The narrator's response to Beria's heinous crimes.
(c) How the baker loves to bake but not to eat.
(d) How he seems almost happy that the narrator's mother has died.

11. What does the narrator now enjoy?
(a) Going to the church and sitting.
(b) Going to the library.
(c) Much freedom.
(d) Playing pool.

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

13. What does the narrator find that he can only afford for a few months?
(a) A car to rent.
(b) An apartment.
(c) A villa to recuperate from surgery.
(d) A private-duty nurse.

14. How does the narrator feel as he is wandering the streets near his temporary home?
(a) Numb.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Curious.
(d) Paranoid.

15. How long does the narrator spend in France after leaving his grandmother for the last time?
(a) 10 years.
(b) A few weeks.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 20 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator learning with his class?

2. What does Paska occasionally do when he is out with the narrator?

3. To what does Charlotte compare people who die?

4. What happens one day to Pashka?

5. What does the narrator's dad begin doing?

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