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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What outrages the narrator concerning France and the Russian revolution?
(a) That the French support the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II.
(b) That the French believe Russians are inferior.
(c) That the Russians believe the French are superior.
(d) That the Russians copy French fashion instead of creating their own fashions.

4. For what do the narrator and his sister stand in line?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Bread.
(d) Apples.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose visit to France does Charlotte describe to the narrator?

2. What do the narrator and his sister secretly share while in the back of the line?

3. To where do the narrator and his sister return?

4. Where does Charlotte store newspaper clippings and photographs from her past?

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

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