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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 & 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the last passenger train when Charlotte arrives at the train station?
(a) It inexplicably leaves on time despite bombs falling.
(b) Nothing unusual.
(c) It is stopped from leaving the station.
(d) It leaves half of its cars on the track.

2. Where do Charlotte and her children see a great many mutilated bodies?
(a) They were mannequins; not bodies.
(b) Falling out of a bombed passenger train.
(c) Stacked neatly for burial by the side of the road.
(d) Near a crematorium.

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

4. What does Pashka take the narrator to observe?
(a) A calf being born.
(b) A student at the school have sex with a prostitute.
(c) A prostitute having sex with soldiers.
(d) A student at the school making out with an older woman.

5. How does Charlotte receive table scraps?
(a) Drawing portraits.
(b) Sweeping the school's hallways.
(c) Begging on the street corner.
(d) Teaching French.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the tekhnars?

2. What calms the narrator after the tragedies of his family life?

3. Who surrounds Charlotte and asks for money?

4. How does the narrator insult his dance partner?

5. When is the last time Charlotte speaks to Albertine?

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