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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 does the narrator's grandmother press into the narrator's hand when the narrator is in bed?
(a) The Verdun.
(b) A rosary.
(c) A tissue.
(d) A newpaper clipping.

2. To what does the narrator admit when discussing his grandmother's descriptions of France?
(a) Not knowing why his grandmother comes to Russia.
(b) Not understanding his grandmother's memories.
(c) Not knowing where reality and fantasy intersect.
(d) Not understanding Russian culture.

3. What woman does the narrator introduce at the opening?
(a) His mother.
(b) His maternal grandmother.
(c) His paternal grandmother.
(d) His mother's sister.

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

5. Whose visit to France does Charlotte describe to the narrator?
(a) Tsar Nicholas II.
(b) Queen Victoria.
(c) President Teddy Roosevelt.
(d) Peter the Great.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one thing the narrator and his sister can visualize as their grandmother is telling a story?

3. With what do the narrator and his sister struggle?

4. In what context does the narrator imagine the French villages his grandmother describes?

5. Who is described as an absolute monarch?

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