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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 seems exquisite to the narrator and his sister?
(a) The uniform of the French palace guards.
(b) The French foods on the menu Charlotte has saved.
(c) The sight of hundreds of place settings set up for a state visit.
(d) The sound of French singing.

2. What happens when the scruffy woman notices the young boy looking at her?
(a) She lies down and sobs.
(b) She slaps him.
(c) She refuses to answer any questions.
(d) She turns and runs out of the picture.

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

4. What do the narrator and his sister secretly share while in the back of the line?
(a) An apple.
(b) Their experience at their grandmother's home.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A banned book.

5. In what context does the narrator imagine the French villages his grandmother describes?
(a) In the context of the Napoleonic Wars.
(b) In the context of the French tourists the narrator has met.
(c) In the context of WWI.
(d) In the context of Russian villages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as an absolute monarch?

2. What outrages the narrator concerning France and the Russian revolution?

3. What was the nickname of Nicholas II at the time the narrator is in school?

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

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

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