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

2. What does Albertine's family not understand?
(a) Why she is friendly with the narrator's family.
(b) Why she wants to return to France.
(c) Why she would stay in Russia.
(d) Why she refuses to learn French.

3. Upon what does Albertine depend?
(a) Government subsidies.
(b) Her son's love.
(c) Her family's largesse.
(d) Morphine.

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

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

2. Why does Charlotte go to Russia during the war?

3. When is the last time Charlotte speaks to Albertine?

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

5. What does the narrator spend much time doing?

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