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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charlotte see one day after she has been to the market buying spices?
(a) Her husband walking down the street.
(b) Her son being hit by a car.
(c) Her daughter being hit by a car.
(d) A vision of a pure Russia.

2. Whose visit to France does Charlotte describe to the narrator?
(a) Peter the Great.
(b) President Teddy Roosevelt.
(c) Queen Victoria.
(d) Tsar Nicholas II.

3. What type of dwellings does Albertine move into with each move?
(a) Smaller ones.
(b) Newer ones.
(c) Older ones.
(d) Larger ones.

4. At what is hinted in this chapter about Fyodor?
(a) That he badly wanted to move to France.
(b) That he works for the KGB.
(c) That he is arrested.
(d) That he is abusive to his wife.

5. To what does the narrator admit when discussing his grandmother's descriptions of France?
(a) Not understanding Russian culture.
(b) Not understanding his grandmother's memories.
(c) Not knowing where reality and fantasy intersect.
(d) Not knowing why his grandmother comes to Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the children dare Charlotte to do?

2. What woman does the narrator introduce at the opening?

3. What is Charlotte's father's occupation?

4. What happens to the last passenger train when Charlotte arrives at the train station?

5. What does the narrator spend much time doing?

(see the answer key)

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