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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 & 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator succeed in imagining?
(a) Living in France.
(b) The breasts of a homeless woman he once sees.
(c) Becoming a famous writer.
(d) Joining his sister in Leningrad.

2. Where does Albertine believe she will ultimately end up?
(a) France.
(b) The United States.
(c) Siberia.
(d) The Gulag.

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

4. What do the adults not understand about Charlotte?
(a) Why she marrys a Russian peasant.
(b) Why she would spend her life in Siberia.
(c) If she loves France.
(d) Why she marries a French ex-patriot.

5. What does the narrator's dad begin doing?
(a) Watching television all the time.
(b) Walking in the park for hours each day.
(c) Disappearing for hours at a time.
(d) Sleeping on the couch.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Albertine leave behind?

3. Where does the narrator catch Charlotte's eye?

4. Why does Charlotte go to Russia during the war?

5. To where do the narrator and his sister return?

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