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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 is one of the narrator's grandmother's most prized possessions?
(a) A piece of clothe from her deceased father's funeral outfit.
(b) A fragment from the bomb that killed her son.
(c) The English cross.
(d) The Verdun.

2. What has the narrator just done three years in the future after finding his temporary home?
(a) Moved to the United States.
(b) Moved back to Russia.
(c) Married.
(d) Published his first book.

3. What does the narrator succeed in imagining?
(a) Joining his sister in Leningrad.
(b) Living in France.
(c) Becoming a famous writer.
(d) The breasts of a homeless woman he once sees.

4. What does Charlotte realize she accidentally did?
(a) Grabs the Siberian Suitcase.
(b) Forgets to leave a note for Fyodor.
(c) Forgets their papers.
(d) Forgets the dog.

5. What does the narrator's grandmother press into the narrator's hand when the narrator is in bed?
(a) The Verdun.
(b) A tissue.
(c) A newpaper clipping.
(d) A rosary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a problem many publishers have with the narrator's manuscript?

2. How many of Charlotte's tales does the narrator write about that have had a strong impact on him?

3. Who likes to lie on Charlotte's living room floor?

4. Who does the narrator curse at a dinner party?

5. What does Charlotte start believing about her husband?

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