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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 & 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of women does the narrator say are so alluring?
(a) American.
(b) Russian.
(c) English.
(d) French.

2. What does Charlotte's father hear from a peasant?
(a) That the potato crop had rotted.
(b) That there were sightings of ghosts wandering the village.
(c) That demonstrators would be shot in the square.
(d) That food was going to be in short supply that winter.

3. To what do conversations drift at dinner parties according to the narrator?
(a) The French revolution.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) WWII.
(d) Albertine.

4. What does Charlotte want Albertine to check when Albertine returns to Russia?
(a) Her toybox.
(b) The mailbox.
(c) The mice by the stove.
(d) Her coloring books.

5. Who is teased ruthlessly in school?
(a) Constantine.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Albertine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What stops if a child wanders into the room where the adults are talking?

2. Who is in Charlotte's former home when she returns to her village?

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

4. How does Charlotte receive table scraps?

5. Who is Sharlota Norbertovna?

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