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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 & 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the scruffy woman with the baby wearing in a photo the narrator writes about?
(a) A sari.
(b) A peasant dress.
(c) A man's shapka.
(d) An expensive skirt suit.

2. What causes Pashka to cry?
(a) Hearing the story about the young French boy.
(b) Being told he is stupid.
(c) Cutting his hand.
(d) Failing to solve an easy math problem in a contest.

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

4. With whom does the narrator make love?
(a) No one.
(b) The prostitute the soldiers had engaged.
(c) The girl with the russet-colored hair.
(d) The blond-haired girl.

5. Why is the narrator allowed to stay when they discuss Charlotte in the kitchen in Chapter 8?
(a) He is 22.
(b) He is 14.
(c) He is 18.
(d) He is 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the last passenger train when Charlotte arrives at the train station?

2. Why is the narrator targeted by bullies at his school?

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

4. Who is married to Norbert?

5. Why does one soldier mutilate himself?

(see the answer key)

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