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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 does a young girl dismantle and reassemble?
(a) A watch.
(b) A radio.
(c) A Klashnikov rifle.
(d) A carburetor.

2. Where does the narrator catch Charlotte's eye?
(a) From the window of the train.
(b) In a reflection in a car side mirror.
(c) In the bathroom mirror as he shaves.
(d) In a plate glass window of the grocery store.

3. Why does the narrator lie to Pashka?
(a) To appear more knowledgeable.
(b) To convince Pashka to do something for the narrator.
(c) To placate Pashka.
(d) The narrator does not lie.

4. What does the young French boy want to do with his watch?
(a) Give it to the king.
(b) Smash it.
(c) Give it to his mother.
(d) Give it to his brother.

5. What two worlds does the narrator become obsessed with as far as their having a meal together?
(a) The upper and lower classes in Russia.
(b) The world of the Russian peasant and Russian nobility.
(c) France and Russia.
(d) The upper and lower classes in France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator succeed in imagining?

2. How does the narrator take it upon himself to continue his information-gathering about Russia and France?

3. Where does the narrator spend days?

4. To what does the narrator become attracted?

5. About what does the grandmother tell stories to the narrator and his sister?

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