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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon what does Albertine depend?
(a) Government subsidies.
(b) Her son's love.
(c) Morphine.
(d) Her family's largesse.

2. Who is married to Norbert?
(a) Charlotte.
(b) Albertine.
(c) Constantine.
(d) It is not specified.

3. To what do conversations drift at dinner parties according to the narrator?
(a) Albertine.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) WWII.
(d) The French revolution.

4. How does the narrator describe Charlotte's father?
(a) As wealthy and well respected.
(b) As a man always on the wrong side of the law.
(c) As a religious and holy man.
(d) As a morphine addict.

5. What does Pashka demand to know from the narrator?
(a) What happens to the young, French boy.
(b) Why the boy is being executed.
(c) Why the king's life is in danger.
(d) If the king rewards the boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Charlotte's response to the children's request?

2. What seems exquisite to the narrator and his sister?

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

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

5. In what context does the narrator imagine the French villages his grandmother describes?

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