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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story does the narrator tell about a young French boy?
(a) The boy almost kills the king despite all the guards.
(b) The boy saves the king's life.
(c) The boy is sentenced to death.
(d) The boy won a world-wide contest.

2. Why does one soldier mutilate himself?
(a) To convince his superiors to send him to the front instead of being a clerk on the back lines.
(b) He enjoys the sight of his blood.
(c) After receiving a divorce request from his wife.
(d) To keep from having to return to the front.

3. Who does the narrator curse at a dinner party?
(a) No one.
(b) His father's best friend who is a Russian diplomat.
(c) The Frenchmen.
(d) His grandmother.

4. What does the narrator's grandmother press into the narrator's hand when the narrator is in bed?
(a) A rosary.
(b) A newpaper clipping.
(c) The Verdun.
(d) A tissue.

5. At what is hinted in this chapter about Fyodor?
(a) That he is arrested.
(b) That he is abusive to his wife.
(c) That he badly wanted to move to France.
(d) That he works for the KGB.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of dwellings does Albertine move into with each move?

2. How does the narrator see his country for the first time from an outsider?

3. Where do Charlotte and her children see a great many mutilated bodies?

4. What happens a few months after Fyodor goes for reintegration?

5. To what do conversations drift at dinner parties according to the narrator?

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