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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What woman does the narrator introduce at the opening?
(a) His mother's sister.
(b) His maternal grandmother.
(c) His mother.
(d) His paternal grandmother.

2. What does Charlotte want Albertine to check when Albertine returns to Russia?
(a) The mailbox.
(b) The mice by the stove.
(c) Her coloring books.
(d) Her toybox.

3. What does Albertine suddenly do one day?
(a) Decides to leave immediately for France.
(b) Inject herself with too much morphine.
(c) Decides to leave immediately for Russia.
(d) Write for help to her mother.

4. To what village does Charlotte return?
(a) Boyarsk.
(b) Lesosibirsk.
(c) Sertolovo.
(d) Dno.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To where do the narrator and his sister return?

2. With what group of Russians is the narrator's grandmother similar in age?

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

4. How does the narrator take it upon himself to continue his information-gathering about Russia and France?

5. What do the narrator and his sister secretly share while in the back of the line?

(see the answer key)

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