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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 characteristic about women does the narrator recall in his own life?
(a) Strong.
(b) Vapid.
(c) Submissive.
(d) Nurturing.

2. Why does Charlotte go to Russia during the war?
(a) To visit her uncle and aunt.
(b) To see if she wants to move back to Russia.
(c) To visit Albertine.
(d) To help on a Red Cross mission.

3. How does Charlotte receive table scraps?
(a) Drawing portraits.
(b) Begging on the street corner.
(c) Sweeping the school's hallways.
(d) Teaching French.

4. Who is Charlotte?
(a) The narrator's French grandmother.
(b) The narrator's Russian grandmother.
(c) The narrator's mother.
(d) The narrator's teacher.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the narrator describe Charlotte's father?

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

4. What does the narrator spend much time doing?

5. Why does Albertine become lost to the world?

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