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

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

3. What two worlds does the narrator become obsessed with as far as their having a meal together?
(a) The upper and lower classes in Russia.
(b) The upper and lower classes in France.
(c) The world of the Russian peasant and Russian nobility.
(d) France and Russia.

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

5. Where does Charlotte store newspaper clippings and photographs from her past?
(a) The Siberian Suitcase.
(b) A huge trunk in the attic.
(c) The Mongolian Suitcase.
(d) The armoire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Norbert?

2. What happens when the scruffy woman notices the young boy looking at her?

3. Where do Charlotte and her children see a great many mutilated bodies?

4. What characteristic about women does the narrator recall in his own life?

5. What is the worst image to haunt Charlotte?

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