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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of women does the narrator say are so alluring?
(a) French.
(b) English.
(c) Russian.
(d) American.

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

3. What do the narrator and his sister secretly share while in the back of the line?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Their experience at their grandmother's home.
(c) An apple.
(d) A banned book.

4. What happens when the scruffy woman notices the young boy looking at her?
(a) She lies down and sobs.
(b) She slaps him.
(c) She refuses to answer any questions.
(d) She turns and runs out of the picture.

5. Where do Charlotte and her children see a great many mutilated bodies?
(a) Stacked neatly for burial by the side of the road.
(b) Near a crematorium.
(c) Falling out of a bombed passenger train.
(d) They were mannequins; not bodies.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why are the narrator and his sister thrown out of the line?

4. What do the adults not understand about Charlotte?

5. Who does Charlotte once visit in a Russian village?

(see the answer key)

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