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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Albertine suddenly do one day?
(a) Write for help to her mother.
(b) Decides to leave immediately for France.
(c) Decides to leave immediately for Russia.
(d) Inject herself with too much morphine.

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

3. How does the narrator take it upon himself to continue his information-gathering about Russia and France?
(a) He interviews a French family who lives in Moscow.
(b) He goes to the library.
(c) He breaks into his grandmother's suitcase.
(d) He records his grandmother's stories.

4. What does Albertine leave behind?
(a) The Siberian suitcase.
(b) Several months unpaid rent.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Her dog.

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. For what do the narrator and his sister stand in line?

2. Who does the narrator visit in Russian as a young boy?

3. What do the narrator and his sister do to some of the collection?

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

5. Upon what does Albertine depend?

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