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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 confuses the narrator about Beria?
(a) How kindness make Beria more angry.
(b) How he seems almost happy that the narrator's mother has died.
(c) The narrator's response to Beria's heinous crimes.
(d) How the baker loves to bake but not to eat.

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

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

4. Why are the narrator and his sister thrown out of the line?
(a) They have no ration cards.
(b) They are too young.
(c) They have already received their rations.
(d) The others in the line think they intend to cheat.

5. What does the narrator need in order to obtain a French passport?
(a) Proof of his French birth.
(b) Proof of his Russian birth.
(c) Enough money to purchase a ticket to Russia.
(d) His French naturalization papers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the young woman given a few months of respite?

2. Who moves in with the narrator's family?

3. Who is married to Norbert?

4. Why is the narrator allowed to stay when they discuss Charlotte in the kitchen in Chapter 8?

5. How old is the narrator when he returns to Charlotte's home for the summer?

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