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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 & 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shatters when Pashka touches it?
(a) The stained glass in the foyer of the school.
(b) A glass flower vase.
(c) An accordian which is very old.
(d) The ice on the lake.

2. With what group of Russians is the narrator's grandmother similar in age?
(a) The laundry women.
(b) None.
(c) The babushkas.
(d) The secretaries.

3. What are the tekhnars?
(a) A group of Russian soldiers trained as assassins.
(b) Mongolians who have settled in Siberia.
(c) A group of Russian soldiers trained as spies.
(d) One of the smaller cliques in the narrator's school.

4. From what does Charlotte's husband die?
(a) Typhus.
(b) War wounds.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Suicide.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does the narrator tell about a young French boy?

2. What do the adults not understand about Charlotte?

3. Of what does the narrator feel jealous?

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

5. When is the last time Charlotte speaks to Albertine?

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