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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 happens to the last passenger train when Charlotte arrives at the train station?
(a) It leaves half of its cars on the track.
(b) It inexplicably leaves on time despite bombs falling.
(c) It is stopped from leaving the station.
(d) Nothing unusual.

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

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

4. What does Charlotte see one day after she has been to the market buying spices?
(a) A vision of a pure Russia.
(b) Her daughter being hit by a car.
(c) Her husband walking down the street.
(d) Her son being hit by a car.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Albertine leave behind?

2. What does the narrator now enjoy?

3. What is one of the narrator's grandmother's most prized possessions?

4. Who is Norbert?

5. Where does the narrator spend days?

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