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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 & 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the narrator and his sister do to some of the collection?
(a) Throw some of it out the window.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Give it to kids in the neighborhood.
(d) Paint them another color.

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

4. Who does the narrator visit in Russian as a young boy?
(a) His Russian grandmother.
(b) His maiden aunt.
(c) His French grandmother.
(d) His Russian uncle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What woman does the narrator introduce at the opening?

2. What seems exquisite to the narrator and his sister?

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

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

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

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