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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described as an absolute monarch?
(a) Queen Victoria.
(b) Tsar Nicholas II.
(c) King Louis XVIII.
(d) Catherine the Great.

2. Who is teased ruthlessly in school?
(a) Charlotte.
(b) Albertine.
(c) Constantine.
(d) The narrator.

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

4. 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 sounds of the guns shot by the Russian peasants.
(c) The rush of the flood waters carrying away cows as the Danube floods.
(d) The glint of the floodwaters.

5. What does the narrator spend much time doing?
(a) Sailing.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Looking through old photo albums.
(d) Playing tennis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Gavrilych?

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

3. What happens when the scruffy woman notices the young boy looking at her?

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

5. To what does the narrator admit when discussing his grandmother's descriptions of France?

(see the answer key)

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