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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the narrator and his sister secretly share while in the back of the line?
(a) Their experience at their grandmother's home.
(b) A banned book.
(c) Nothing.
(d) An apple.

2. What does Albertine leave behind?
(a) Her dog.
(b) Several months unpaid rent.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The Siberian suitcase.

3. For what is Nicholas II responsible in the early part of the 20th century?
(a) Thousands of deaths.
(b) New restrictions on the Russian Orthodox church.
(c) The loss of much of Russia's land that borders China.
(d) Mandatory public schooling for all Russians.

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 Charlotte?
(a) The narrator's teacher.
(b) The narrator's Russian grandmother.
(c) The narrator's mother.
(d) The narrator's French grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator visit in Russian as a young boy?

2. Who is married to Norbert?

3. Who is Gavrilych?

4. Why are the narrator and his sister thrown out of the line?

5. What was the nickname of Nicholas II at the time the narrator is in school?

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