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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 Pashka?
(a) A math teacher.
(b) The janitor at the narrator's school.
(c) A fisherman.
(d) The headmaster at the narrator's school.

2. What does the narrator learn months later from Mr. Bond?
(a) Charlotte has moved to Moscow.
(b) Charlotte is under arrest.
(c) Charlotte is very ill.
(d) Charlotte died in September a year earlier.

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

4. Why does the narrator wander around France?
(a) To visit several friends.
(b) For no reason.
(c) To write a travel book.
(d) To decide where he wants to buy a house.

5. Of what does the narrator feel jealous?
(a) The ability of the best athlete at his school.
(b) Tank soldiers who stand at attention.
(c) The blonde-haired girl's boyfriend.
(d) His younger brother's talent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the narrator spend days?

3. Why does the narrator refuse to call or contact Charlotte?

4. What does the narrator want of Mr. Bond?

5. What does Mr. Bond encourage the narrator to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator do after he accidentally insults a girl at a dance?

2. How does Pashka almost drown once?

3. What does Charlotte's last story for the narrator tell him?

4. How does the narrator imagine Charlotte in France and what does he do that he does not usually do when preparing for her visit?

5. What does the narrator do upon returning from Russia?

6. What does the narrator relate about a man named Beria?

7. Why does the narrator think he is being accepted by his classmates, what does he see as the three types of cliques in a crowd and how does his acceptance affect his writing?

8. What happens when the narrator's mother goes for some medical tests?

9. How does the narrator's interest in Russia cause him problems?

10. What catches the narrator's attention almost obsessively?

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