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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What type of collection does the narrator recall unwrapping with his sister?
(a) Ornaments.
(b) Rock.
(c) Feather.
(d) Coin.

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

4. What was the nickname of Nicholas II at the time the narrator is in school?
(a) Nicholas the Fool.
(b) Nicholas the Just.
(c) Nicholas the Bloody.
(d) He does not have a nickname.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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