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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 does the narrator find that he can only afford for a few months?
(a) An apartment.
(b) A villa to recuperate from surgery.
(c) A car to rent.
(d) A private-duty nurse.

2. Who is Charlotte's first love?
(a) Her brother's best friend.
(b) The man who gives Charlotte the Verdun.
(c) Her first husband.
(d) Her second cousin.

3. When is the last time Charlotte speaks to Albertine?
(a) When Albertine climbs into a cab to go to the airport to visit France.
(b) When Albertine goes to a rehab hospital.
(c) Just before Albertine dies in the hospital.
(d) When Albertine leaves for Russia for one last visit.

4. Who is Gavrilych?
(a) The town drunk where the narrator's grandmother lives.
(b) A milkman.
(c) A retired Russian artillery man.
(d) A mail carrier.

5. What does the narrator spend much time doing?
(a) Playing tennis.
(b) Sailing.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Looking through old photo albums.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is teased ruthlessly in school?

2. To what village does Charlotte return?

3. What do the narrator and his sister secretly share while in the back of the line?

4. What is Charlotte's father's occupation?

5. What was the nickname of Nicholas II at the time the narrator is in school?

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