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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14 & 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator consider when he runs out of money?
(a) Joining the French Foreign Legion.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Working for his best friend's father.
(d) Writing his grandmother to ask for money.

2. What is the scruffy woman with the baby wearing in a photo the narrator writes about?
(a) A sari.
(b) A man's shapka.
(c) An expensive skirt suit.
(d) A peasant dress.

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

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

5. What happens to Fyodor when he is dressed as Santa Claus?
(a) He is arrested.
(b) He gets stuck in the chimney.
(c) He dies of a heart attack.
(d) He is shot.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is Nicholas II responsible in the early part of the 20th century?

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

3. What does the narrator invent in order to publish his book?

4. What is Charlotte's response to the children's request?

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

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