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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two worlds does the narrator become obsessed with as far as their having a meal together?
(a) The upper and lower classes in France.
(b) The upper and lower classes in Russia.
(c) The world of the Russian peasant and Russian nobility.
(d) France and Russia.

2. How does the narrator take it upon himself to continue his information-gathering about Russia and France?
(a) He breaks into his grandmother's suitcase.
(b) He interviews a French family who lives in Moscow.
(c) He goes to the library.
(d) He records his grandmother's stories.

3. Why does Albertine become lost to the world?
(a) Because of the death of her mother.
(b) Because of her dependence on morphine.
(c) Because of France's policy towards ex-patriots.
(d) Because of Russia's policy towards ex-patriots.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what do the narrator and his sister struggle?

2. What does Charlotte want Albertine to check when Albertine returns to Russia?

3. What does Albertine's family not understand?

4. What outrages the narrator concerning France and the Russian revolution?

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

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