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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 the narrator spend much time doing?
(a) Sailing.
(b) Playing tennis.
(c) Looking through old photo albums.
(d) Sleeping.

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

3. Who is Sergei?
(a) Charlotte's best friend's brother.
(b) Fyodor's brother.
(c) The town mayor.
(d) Charlotte's son.

4. What is one thing the narrator and his sister can visualize as their grandmother is telling a story?
(a) The sounds of the guns shot by the Russian peasants.
(b) The rush of the flood waters carrying away cows as the Danube floods.
(c) The glint of the floodwaters.
(d) The boom of the explosions in the streets of Madrid.

5. Who is Felix Faure?
(a) The French ambassador to Russia.
(b) A infamous murderer.
(c) A famous French author.
(d) The French president.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is the narrator when he returns to Charlotte's home for the summer?

3. Who is Gavrilych?

4. How does Charlotte receive table scraps?

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

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