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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 have difficulty reconciling?
(a) Nothing.
(b) His feelings for girls and his dependence on his grandmother.
(c) His feelings for girls with his friendships with the boys.
(d) The two halves of the prostitute.

2. Why are the narrator and his sister thrown out of the line?
(a) They have no ration cards.
(b) They are too young.
(c) They have already received their rations.
(d) The others in the line think they intend to cheat.

3. Where has the narrator just quit a job?
(a) Newspaper.
(b) Hospital.
(c) Library.
(d) Radio station.

4. What does the narrator feel that Charlotte temporarily gives him?
(a) A sense of belonging.
(b) The ability to lift his mood.
(c) The ability to feel eternal.
(d) A sense of purpose.

5. Who does the narrator curse at a dinner party?
(a) His father's best friend who is a Russian diplomat.
(b) The Frenchmen.
(c) No one.
(d) His grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has the narrator's older sister gone?

2. What does the narrator try to visualize about the three women in the photo?

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

4. What does Charlotte learn of Fyodor?

5. How does the narrator see his country for the first time from an outsider?

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