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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Charlotte do on the front lines?
(a) Cooks.
(b) Drives an ambulance.
(c) Works as a nurse.
(d) Sews clothing for the soldiers.

3. Who is Norbert?
(a) The narrator's neighbor.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) The narrator's great-grandfather.
(d) The narrator's uncle.

4. What happens to Fyodor when he is dressed as Santa Claus?
(a) He is shot.
(b) He is arrested.
(c) He gets stuck in the chimney.
(d) He dies of a heart attack.

5. Who is described as an absolute monarch?
(a) Tsar Nicholas II.
(b) King Louis XVIII.
(c) Catherine the Great.
(d) Queen Victoria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the narrator and his sister do to some of the collection?

2. What is one thing the narrator and his sister can visualize as their grandmother is telling a story?

3. Who is Gavrilych?

4. For what do the narrator and his sister stand in line?

5. Upon what does Albertine depend?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say his grandmother does when the narrator looks at the photo of the scruffy woman?

2. What story captures the narrator's imagination concerning Tsar Nicholas II?

3. What impresses the narrator about his maternal grandfather?

4. What is Charlotte's relationship to Gavrilych?

5. What does the narrator say about what makes French women alluring in photographs?

6. About what do others continue to speculate?

7. What happens when the narrator and his sister go for oranges?

8. What is the story does the narrator relate about Charlotte's rock collection?

9. What happens each time Albertine and Charlotte return to Russia from France?

10. Where does the narrator go for the summer and what is a tale she relates to the narrator on his first night there?

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