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

2. For what is Nicholas II responsible in the early part of the 20th century?
(a) Thousands of deaths.
(b) Mandatory public schooling for all Russians.
(c) The loss of much of Russia's land that borders China.
(d) New restrictions on the Russian Orthodox church.

3. Why does one soldier mutilate himself?
(a) To convince his superiors to send him to the front instead of being a clerk on the back lines.
(b) To keep from having to return to the front.
(c) After receiving a divorce request from his wife.
(d) He enjoys the sight of his blood.

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

5. What is the worst image to haunt Charlotte?
(a) The sight of several very young German soldiers being tortured.
(b) The sight of several very young children being shot for stealing.
(c) The sight of elderly people freezing to death on the side of the road.
(d) The sight of men who have lost both arms and legs.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what are some children concerned about when Charlotte talks to them?

2. Who is described as an absolute monarch?

3. What does Charlotte learn of Fyodor?

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

5. Where does Charlotte store newspaper clippings and photographs from her past?

(see the answer key)

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