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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator spend days?
(a) At the French embassy.
(b) In a training class for teachers.
(c) In the public library.
(d) In day boot camp.

2. What does Charlotte want Albertine to check when Albertine returns to Russia?
(a) Her toybox.
(b) The mice by the stove.
(c) The mailbox.
(d) Her coloring books.

3. What does the narrator temporarily call home?
(a) A bathroom stall in the Paris airport.
(b) A clearing in a dense woods.
(c) A tomb.
(d) A bathroom stall in the train station.

4. How does one soldier get his leg full of splinters?
(a) Sliding down a rough board into a trench.
(b) Being bombed while holding a wooden spoon.
(c) A tree explodes near him.
(d) There is nothing mentioned about a man with splinters.

5. What does the narrator realize about Charlotte?
(a) She wants to leave Russia.
(b) She is dying.
(c) She is unhappy.
(d) He can learn nothing else about France from her.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator become attracted?

2. For what do the narrator and his sister stand in line?

3. What characteristic about women does the narrator recall in his own life?

4. What happens to Fyodor when he is dressed as Santa Claus?

5. In what context does the narrator imagine the French villages his grandmother describes?

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