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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the worst image to haunt Charlotte?
(a) The sight of men who have lost both arms and legs.
(b) The sight of several very young children being shot for stealing.
(c) The sight of several very young German soldiers being tortured.
(d) The sight of elderly people freezing to death on the side of the road.

2. What does Sergei notice being loaded?
(a) A large ocean-going vessel.
(b) A cart and horse.
(c) A freight train.
(d) An airplane.

3. Why does the narrator help Pashka?
(a) To show how superior he is.
(b) In return for Pashka's help with math.
(c) In return for Pashka's help getting the other students to like him.
(d) To feel useful.

4. In what context does the narrator imagine the French villages his grandmother describes?
(a) In the context of the Napoleonic Wars.
(b) In the context of the French tourists the narrator has met.
(c) In the context of WWI.
(d) In the context of Russian villages.

5. Who is the one person who is kind to the narrator at school?
(a) The teacher.
(b) The nurse.
(c) The class dunce.
(d) The janitor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Charlotte's father's occupation?

2. Who does the narrator curse at a dinner party?

3. Who is shocked when the young, French boy does as he promises?

4. What does the narrator's grandmother press into the narrator's hand when the narrator is in bed?

5. With what does Charlotte's daughter fall ill?

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