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

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

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

4. To where do the narrator and his sister return?
(a) To Moscow.
(b) To Paris.
(c) To their own town.
(d) To their grandmother's Dachau.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator spend much time doing?

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

3. What does the narrator's grandmother press into the narrator's hand when the narrator is in bed?

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

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

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