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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Albertine not have in Russia?
(a) Friends.
(b) A job.
(c) Family.
(d) Money.

2. What is one thing the narrator and his sister can visualize as their grandmother is telling a story?
(a) The boom of the explosions in the streets of Madrid.
(b) The rush of the flood waters carrying away cows as the Danube floods.
(c) The sounds of the guns shot by the Russian peasants.
(d) The glint of the floodwaters.

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

4. What happens when the scruffy woman notices the young boy looking at her?
(a) She refuses to answer any questions.
(b) She turns and runs out of the picture.
(c) She lies down and sobs.
(d) She slaps him.

5. Whose visit to France does Charlotte describe to the narrator?
(a) Tsar Nicholas II.
(b) Peter the Great.
(c) President Teddy Roosevelt.
(d) Queen Victoria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What characteristic about women does the narrator recall in his own life?

2. Why does Charlotte go to Russia during the war?

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

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

5. What does the narrator spend much time doing?

(see the answer key)

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