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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Sergei?
(a) Charlotte's best friend's brother.
(b) Charlotte's son.
(c) The town mayor.
(d) Fyodor's brother.

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

3. What does Albertine suddenly do one day?
(a) Inject herself with too much morphine.
(b) Write for help to her mother.
(c) Decides to leave immediately for France.
(d) Decides to leave immediately for Russia.

4. What does the narrator realize about Charlotte and himself?
(a) They are not biologically related.
(b) They have no needs for words to communicate with each other.
(c) They do not really like each other.
(d) They are complete opposites in all ways.

5. With what are some children concerned about when Charlotte talks to them?
(a) Life in the United States.
(b) Food.
(c) Finding people to adopt them.
(d) Supernatural experiences.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what do conversations drift at dinner parties according to the narrator?

2. To what village does Charlotte return?

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

4. How does Charlotte receive table scraps?

5. What does the narrator's dad begin doing?

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