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

2. In whose arms does Felix Faure die?
(a) His mother's.
(b) No one; he dies alone.
(c) His son's.
(d) His lover's.

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

4. What does Albertine not have in Russia?
(a) Money.
(b) Friends.
(c) A job.
(d) Family.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the narrator and his sister secretly share while in the back of the line?

2. What type of women does the narrator say are so alluring?

3. What is one of the narrator's grandmother's most prized possessions?

4. What type of collection does the narrator recall unwrapping with his sister?

5. In what context does the narrator imagine the French villages his grandmother describes?

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