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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 characteristic about women does the narrator recall in his own life?
(a) Nurturing.
(b) Strong.
(c) Vapid.
(d) Submissive.

2. What is the scruffy woman with the baby wearing in a photo the narrator writes about?
(a) A sari.
(b) An expensive skirt suit.
(c) A peasant dress.
(d) A man's shapka.

3. 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.

4. Who likes to lie on Charlotte's living room floor?
(a) The narrator.
(b) No one.
(c) The odd girl next door.
(d) The milkmaid.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator take it upon himself to continue his information-gathering about Russia and France?

2. About what does the grandmother tell stories to the narrator and his sister?

3. Who is Gavrilych?

4. Why are the narrator and his sister thrown out of the line?

5. What do the narrator and his sister do to some of the collection?

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