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

2. About what does the narrator feel guilty?
(a) His changed relationship with Charlotte.
(b) His father's death.
(c) His sister having to leave.
(d) His mother's death.

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

4. How does the narrator insult his dance partner?
(a) Letting the school bully cut in on a dance.
(b) Telling her she needs more make-up.
(c) Telling her he like her straight hair better than the curls she now sports.
(d) Being too intimate with her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who likes to lie on Charlotte's living room floor?

2. With what does Charlotte's daughter fall ill?

3. What is the scruffy woman with the baby wearing in a photo the narrator writes about?

4. What two worlds does the narrator become obsessed with as far as their having a meal together?

5. Why must the narrator construct his stories three different ways?

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