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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Albertine believe she will ultimately end up?
(a) The Gulag.
(b) Siberia.
(c) The United States.
(d) France.

3. What two worlds does the narrator become obsessed with as far as their having a meal together?
(a) The upper and lower classes in France.
(b) France and Russia.
(c) The upper and lower classes in Russia.
(d) The world of the Russian peasant and Russian nobility.

4. 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 French tourists the narrator has met.
(c) In the context of the Napoleonic Wars.
(d) In the context of Russian villages.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Albertine become lost to the world?

2. Who likes to lie on Charlotte's living room floor?

3. What type of dwellings does Albertine move into with each move?

4. What does Albertine not have in Russia?

5. What seems exquisite to the narrator and his sister?

(see the answer key)

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